Transform-based video coding method and device

The video coding method improves efficiency by using MTS index signaling and flag information parsing to optimize transform index coding, addressing the high data volume challenges of high-resolution and immersive media.

JP2025020405AActive Publication Date: 2025-02-12LG ELECTRONICS INC
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JP2024198990
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JP · JP
Patent Type
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Priority Date
2019-11-11
Filing Date
2024-11-14
Publication Date
2025-02-12
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2040-11-09

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Technical Problem

The increasing demand for high-resolution and high-quality images/videos, such as UHD and immersive media, has led to higher transmission and storage costs due to increased data volume, necessitating a more efficient video coding technique.

Method used

A video coding method utilizing Multiple Transform Selection (MTS) index signaling and parsing based on flag information to optimize transform index coding, including inverse linear transformation and zeroing out specific regions in blocks.

Benefits of technology

Enhances video coding efficiency by reducing data transmission and storage costs while maintaining image quality, particularly for high-resolution and immersive media.

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Abstract

To provide an image coding method and a decoding method for improving efficiency.SOLUTION: A video decoding method includes applying an inverse linear transform to transform coefficients to derive residual samples for a current block, the inverse linear transform is performed on the basis of an MTS index received from a bitstream, the MTS index is parsed on the basis of the absence of valid coefficients in a second region excluding a top-left first region of the current block, the first region is a top-left 16×16 region of the current block.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 16
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Description

[Technical field]

[0001] This document relates to image coding technology, and more particularly to a transform-based image coding method and apparatus in an image coding system. [Background technology]

[0002] In recent years, the demand for high-resolution, high-quality images / videos such as 4K or 8K or higher UHD (Ultra High Definition) images / videos is increasing in various fields. As the image / video data has higher resolution and quality, the amount of information or bits to be transmitted increases relatively compared to existing image / video data, so that when image data is transmitted using a medium such as an existing wired or wireless broadband line or image / video data is stored using an existing storage medium, the transmission cost and storage cost increase.

[0003] In addition, in recent years, interest in and demand for immersive media such as virtual reality (VR), artificial reality (AR) content, and holograms has been increasing, and the broadcast of images / videos having different image characteristics from real images, such as game images, has been increasing.

[0004] Therefore, there is a demand for a highly efficient image / video compression technique to effectively compress and transmit, store, and play back high-resolution, high-quality image / video information having the above-mentioned various characteristics. Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0005] The technical problem of this document is to provide a method and apparatus for increasing video coding efficiency.

[0006] Another technical problem of this document is to provide a method and apparatus for improving the efficiency of transform index coding.

[0007] Another technical object of this document is to provide a video coding method and apparatus using MTS.

[0008] Another technical problem of this document is to provide a video coding method and apparatus for MTS index signaling. [Means for solving the problem]

[0009] According to an embodiment of the present document, there is provided a video decoding method performed by a decoding device, the method including the step of applying an inverse linear transform to transform coefficients to derive residual samples for the current block, the inverse linear transform being performed based on an MTS index received from the bitstream, the MTS index being parsed based on the absence of valid coefficients in a second region excluding a top left first region of the current block, the first region being a top left 16x16 region of the current block.

[0010] The MTS index is parsed based on flag information indicating whether a significant coefficient exists in the second region, and the flag information is derived by determining whether the significant coefficient exists in the second region in units of scan sub-blocks in which the significant coefficients are scanned.

[0011] The flag information indicates that a flag value indicating whether the significant coefficient exists in the scan sub-block is 1, and if a significant coefficient existing in the scan sub-block is located in the second region, the flag information indicates that the significant coefficient exists in the second region.

[0012] The flag information indicates that the effective coefficient is present in the second region when a flag value indicating whether the effective coefficient is present in the scan sub-block is 1 and the scan sub-block is located in the second region.

[0013] The flag information is initially set to 1, and if the significant coefficient is located in the second region, the flag information is changed to 0.

[0014] The scan sub-block is a 4x4 block, and the scan sub-block is scanned in an inverse diagonal scan direction from the position of the last significant coefficient in the current block.

[0015] According to an embodiment of the present document, there is provided a video encoding method executed by an encoding apparatus, the method including the steps of: applying MTS to residual samples to derive transform coefficients for the current block, zeroing out a second region excluding a top left first region of the current block, deriving residual information based on the transform coefficients of the first region, and configuring video information such that an MTS index indicating a transform kernel of the MTS is parsed based on whether a significant coefficient exists in the second region, the first region being a top left 16x16 region of the current block.

[0016] According to another embodiment of the present document, a digital storage medium is provided having stored thereon video data including encoded video information and a bitstream generated by a video encoding method performed by an encoding apparatus.

[0017] According to another embodiment of the present document, a digital storage medium is provided having stored thereon video data including encoded video information and a bitstream that enables a decoding device to perform the video decoding method. Effect of the Invention

[0018] According to the document, it can improve the overall image / video compression efficiency.

[0019] According to this document, the efficiency of MTS index coding can be improved.

[0020] According to this document, the efficiency of video coding methods utilizing MTS can be improved.

[0021] The effects obtained through a specific example of the present specification are not limited to the effects listed above. For example, there may be various technical effects that a person having ordinary skill in the related art can understand or derive from the present specification. Thus, the specific effects of the present specification are not limited to those explicitly described in the present specification, and may include various effects that can be understood or derive from the technical features of the present specification. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0022] [Figure 1] 1 illustrates generally an example of a video / image coding system to which this document can be applied; [Diagram 2] 1 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of a video / image encoding device to which this document can be applied. [Diagram 3] 1 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of a video / image decoding device to which this document can be applied. [Figure 4] 1 illustrates a schematic of a multiple conversion technique according to one embodiment of the present document; [Diagram 5] An intra-directional mode with 65 prediction directions is shown as an example. [Figure 6] FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a RST according to one embodiment of this document. [Figure 7] FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a sequence in which output data of a forward linear transform is arranged into a one-dimensional vector, according to an example. [Figure 8] FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a sequence in which output data of a forward quadratic transform is arranged in a two-dimensional block, according to an example. [Figure 9]FIG. 1 illustrates a wide-angle intra-prediction mode according to one embodiment of the present document. [Figure 10] FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a block configuration to which LFNST is applied. [Figure 11] FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of an arrangement of output data from a forward LFNST; [Figure 12] FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the number of output data items for a forward LFNST is limited to a maximum of 16. [Figure 13] FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating zeroing out in a block to which 4×4 LFNST is applied, according to an example. [Figure 14] FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating zeroing out in a block to which 8×8 LFNST is applied, according to an example. [Figure 15] FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating scanning of a 32×32 transform block according to an example of the present document. [Figure 16] 1 is a diagram illustrating an image decoding method according to an example. [Figure 17] 1 is a diagram illustrating a video encoding method according to an example. [Figure 18] 1 illustrates an exemplary structural diagram of a content streaming system to which this document applies. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0023] This document may have various modifications and may have various embodiments, and a specific embodiment will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail. However, this is not intended to limit this document to a specific embodiment. The terms used in this specification are merely used to describe a specific embodiment, and are not intended to limit the technical ideas of this document. A singular expression includes a plural expression unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In this specification, the terms "include" or "have" specify the presence of a feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, and should be understood not to preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, numbers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

[0024] Meanwhile, each component in the drawings described in this document is illustrated independently for the convenience of explaining the different characteristic functions, and does not mean that each component is realized by separate hardware or software. For example, two or more components among the components may be combined to form one component, or one component may be divided into multiple components. An embodiment in which each component is integrated and / or separated is also included in the scope of the rights of this document as long as it does not deviate from the essence of this document.

[0025] DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following, the same reference numerals are used for the same components in the drawings, and duplicated descriptions of the same components will be omitted.

[0026] This document relates to video / image coding. For example, the methods / embodiments disclosed in this document may be associated with the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard (ITU-T Rec. H.266), a next-generation video / image coding standard beyond VVC, or other video coding related standards (e.g., the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard (ITU-T Rec. H.265), the essential video coding (EVC) standard, the AVS2 standard, etc.).

[0027] This document presents various embodiments for video / image coding, which embodiments may also be implemented in combination with each other, unless otherwise stated.

[0028] In this document, video may refer to a collection of a series of images over time. A picture generally refers to a unit that indicates one image at a specific time, and a slice / tile is a unit that constitutes a part of a picture in coding. A slice / tile may include one or more coding tree units (CTUs). One picture may be composed of one or more slices / tiles. One picture may be composed of one or more tile groups. One tile group may include one or more tiles.

[0029] A pixel or a pel may refer to the smallest unit constituting one picture (or image). A term corresponding to a pixel may also be used as a "sample." A sample may generally refer to a pixel or a pixel value, may refer to only a pixel / pixel value of a luma component, or may refer to only a pixel / pixel value of a chroma component. Alternatively, a sample may refer to a pixel value in the spatial domain, or may refer to a transform coefficient in the frequency domain when such a pixel value is transformed into the frequency domain.

[0030] A unit may indicate a basic unit of image processing. A unit may include at least one of a specific region of a picture and information related to the region. One unit may include one luma block and two chroma (e.g., cb, cr) blocks. A unit may be used interchangeably with terms such as block or area depending on the case. In a general case, an M×N block may include a set (or array) of samples or transform coefficients consisting of M columns and N rows.

[0031] In this document, the terms " / " and "," should be interpreted to indicate "and / or." For instance, "A / B" is interpreted as "A and / or B," and "A,B" is interpreted as "A and / or B." Additionally, "A / B / C" means "at least one of A, B, and / or C." Also, "A,B,C" means "at least one of A, B, and / or C." (In this document, the term " / " and "," should be interpreted to indicate "and / or." For instance, the expression "A / B" may mean "A and / or B." Further, "A,B" may mean "A and / or B." Further, "A / B / C" may mean "at least one of A,B,and / or C." Also, "A / B / C" may mean "at least one of A,B,and / or C.")

[0032] Additionally, in this document, the term "or" should be interpreted to indicate "and / or." For example, "A or B" may comprise 1) only A, 2) only B, or 3) both A and B. In other words, the term "or" in this document should be interpreted to indicate "additionally or alternatively."

[0033] In this specification, "at least one of A and B" can mean "only A," "only B," or "both A and B." In addition, in this specification, the expressions "at least one of A or B" and "at least one of A and / or B" can be interpreted as "at least one of A and B."

[0034] In addition, in this specification, "at least one of A, B and C" can mean "only A," "only B," "only C," or "any combination of A, B and C." Furthermore, "at least one of A, B or C" or "at least one of A, B and / or C" can mean "at least one of A, B and C."

[0035] Furthermore, parentheses used in the present specification may mean "for example." Specifically, when "prediction (intra prediction)" is displayed, "intra prediction" is proposed as an example of "prediction." In other words, "prediction" in the present specification is not limited to "intra prediction," and "intra prediction" is proposed as an example of "prediction." Furthermore, when "prediction (i.e., intra prediction)" is displayed, "intra prediction" is proposed as an example of "prediction."

[0036] In this specification, technical features individually described in one drawing may be embodied individually or simultaneously.

[0037] FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of an example of a video / image coding system to which this document can be applied.

[0038] Referring to Figure 1, the video / image coding system may include a source device and a receiving device. The source device may transmit encoded video / image information or data to the receiving device via a digital storage medium or a network in the form of a file or streaming.

[0039] The source device may include a video source, an encoding device, and a sending unit. The receiving device may include a receiving unit, a decoding device, and a renderer. The encoding device may be referred to as a video / video encoding device, and the decoding device may be referred to as a video / video decoding device. The transmitter may be included in the encoding device. The receiver may be included in the decoding device. The renderer may also include a display unit, which may be a separate device or an external component.

[0040] A video source may acquire video / images through a video / image capture, synthesis, or generation process. A video source may include a video / image capture device and / or a video / image generation device. A video / image capture device may include, for example, one or more cameras, a video / image archive containing previously captured video / images, etc. A video / image generation device may include, for example, a computer, a tablet, a smartphone, etc., and may (electronically) generate video / images. For example, a virtual video / image may be generated via a computer, etc., in which case the video / image capture process may be replaced by a process in which related data is generated.

[0041] An encoding device may encode an input video / image. The encoding device may perform a series of steps such as prediction, transformation, quantization, etc. for compression and coding efficiency. The encoded data (encoded video / image information) may be output in the form of a bitstream.

[0042] The transmitting unit can transmit the encoded video / image information or data output in the form of a bitstream to a receiving unit of a receiving device via a digital storage medium in the form of a file or streaming. The digital storage medium can include various storage media such as USB, SD, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, HDD, SSD, etc. The transmitting unit can include elements for generating a media file in a predetermined file format and can include elements for transmission via a broadcasting / communication network. The receiving unit can receive / extract the bitstream and transmit it to a decoding device.

[0043] The decoding device can decode the video / image by performing a series of steps such as inverse quantization, inverse transformation, and prediction that correspond to the operations of the encoding device.

[0044] The renderer may render the decoded video / image, and the rendered video / image may be displayed via a display unit.

[0045] 2 is a diagram for briefly explaining the configuration of a video / image encoding device to which this document can be applied. Hereinafter, the video encoding device may include an image encoding device.

[0046] Referring to FIG. 2, the encoding apparatus 200 may include an image partitioner 210, a predictor 220, a residual processor 230, an entropy encoder 240, an adder 250, a filter 260, and a memory 270. The predictor 220 may include an inter predictor 221 and an intra predictor 222. The residual processor 230 may include a transformer 232, a quantizer 233, a dequantizer 234, and an inverse transformer 235. The residual processor 230 may further include a subtractor 231. The adder 250 may be referred to as a reconstructor or a reconstructed block generator. The image division unit 210, the prediction unit 220, the residual processing unit 230, the entropy encoding unit 240, the addition unit 250, and the filtering unit 260 may be configured with one or more hardware components (e.g., an encoder chip set or a processor) according to an embodiment. Also, the memory 270 may include a decoded picture buffer (DPB) and may be configured with a digital storage medium. The hardware components may further include the memory 270 as an internal / external component.

[0047] The image division unit 210 may divide an input image (or picture, frame) input to the encoding device 200 into one or more processing units. As an example, the processing units may be called coding units (CUs). In this case, the coding units may be recursively divided from a coding tree unit (CTU) or a largest coding unit (LCU) according to a quad-tree binary-tree ternary-tree (QTBTTT) structure. For example, one coding unit may be divided into a plurality of coding units of a deeper depth based on a quad-tree structure, a binary tree structure, and / or a ternary structure. In this case, for example, the quad-tree structure may be applied first, and then the binary tree structure and / or the ternary structure may be applied. Alternatively, the binary tree structure may be applied first. The coding procedure according to this document may be performed based on a final coding unit that is not further divided. In this case, the largest coding unit may be used as the final coding unit based on coding efficiency according to image characteristics, or the coding unit may be recursively divided into coding units of lower depths as necessary, and a coding unit of an optimal size may be used as the final coding unit. Here, the coding procedure may include procedures such as prediction, transformation, and restoration, which will be described later. As another example, the processing unit may further include a prediction unit (PU) or a transform unit (TU). In this case, the prediction unit and the transform unit may each be divided or partitioned from the final coding unit described above.The prediction unit is a unit of sample prediction, and the transform unit is a unit for deriving transform coefficients and / or a unit for deriving a residual signal from the transform coefficients.

[0048] The unit may be used interchangeably with terms such as block or area. In general, an M×N block may refer to a set of samples or transform coefficients consisting of M columns and N rows. A sample may generally refer to a pixel or pixel value, or may refer to only a pixel / pixel value of a luma component, or may refer to only a pixel / pixel value of a chroma component. A sample may be used as a term corresponding to a pixel or pel of a picture (or image).

[0049] The subtraction unit 231 may subtract a prediction signal (predicted block, prediction sample, or prediction sample array) output from the prediction unit 220 from an input image signal (original block, original sample, or original sample array) to generate a residual signal (residual block, residual sample, or residual sample array), and the generated residual signal is transmitted to the conversion unit 232. The prediction unit 220 may perform prediction on a block to be processed (hereinafter, referred to as a current block) and generate a predicted block including a prediction sample for the current block. The prediction unit 220 may determine whether intra prediction or inter prediction is applied in units of the current block or CU. The prediction unit may generate various information related to prediction, such as prediction mode information, and transmit the information to the entropy encoding unit 240, as described below in the description of each prediction mode. The prediction information may be encoded by the entropy encoding unit 240 and output in the form of a bitstream.

[0050] The intra prediction unit 222 may predict the current block by referring to samples in the current picture. The referenced samples may be located in the neighborhood of the current block or may be located away from the current block depending on the prediction mode. In the intra prediction, the prediction mode may include a plurality of non-directional modes and a plurality of directional modes. The non-directional modes may include, for example, a DC mode and a planar mode. The directional modes may include, for example, 33 directional prediction modes or 65 directional prediction modes depending on the fineness of the prediction direction. However, this is merely an example, and more or less directional prediction modes may be used depending on the setting. The intra prediction unit 222 may also determine the prediction mode to be applied to the current block by using the prediction modes applied to the neighboring blocks.

[0051] The inter prediction unit 221 may derive a predicted block for a current block based on a reference block (reference sample array) specified by a motion vector on a reference picture. In this case, in order to reduce the amount of motion information transmitted in the inter prediction mode, the motion information may be predicted in units of a block, a sub-block, or a sample based on the correlation of the motion information between a neighboring block and the current block. The motion information may include a motion vector and a reference picture index. The motion information may further include inter prediction direction (L0 prediction, L1 prediction, Bi prediction, etc.) information. In the case of inter prediction, the neighboring block may include a spatial neighboring block present in the current picture and a temporal neighboring block present in the reference picture. The reference picture including the reference block and the reference picture including the temporal neighboring block may be the same or different. The temporal neighboring block may be called a collocated reference block, a collocated CU (colCU), etc., and the reference picture including the temporal neighboring block may be called a collocated picture (colPic). For example, the inter prediction unit 221 may generate information indicating which candidate is used to derive a motion vector and / or a reference picture index of the current block by forming a motion information candidate list based on neighboring blocks. Inter prediction may be performed based on various prediction modes, and for example, in the case of a skip mode and a merge mode, the inter prediction unit 221 may use motion information of neighboring blocks as motion information of the current block. In the case of the skip mode, unlike the merge mode, a residual signal is not transmitted.In the case of motion vector prediction (MVP) mode, the motion vector of the neighboring block can be used as a motion vector predictor, and the motion vector of the current block can be indicated by signaling the motion vector difference.

[0052] The prediction unit 220 may generate a prediction signal based on various prediction methods described below. For example, the prediction unit may apply intra prediction or inter prediction for prediction of one block, and may simultaneously apply intra prediction and inter prediction. This may be called combined inter and intra prediction (CIIP). The prediction unit may also perform intra block copy (IBC) for prediction of a block. The intra block copy may be used for content image / moving image coding such as games, for example, as in screen content coding (SCC). IBC basically performs prediction within a current picture, but may be performed similarly to inter prediction in that a reference block is derived within the current picture. That is, IBC may use at least one of the inter prediction techniques described in this document.

[0053] The prediction signal generated through the inter prediction unit 221 and / or the intra prediction unit 222 may be used to generate a restored signal or may be used to generate a residual signal. The transform unit 232 may generate transform coefficients by applying a transform technique to the residual signal. For example, the transform technique may include a discrete cosine transform (DCT), a discrete sine transform (DST), a graph-based transform (GBT), or a conditionally non-linear transform (CNT). Here, the GBT refers to a transform obtained from a graph when the relationship information between pixels is expressed as a graph. The CNT refers to a transform obtained based on a prediction signal generated using all previously reconstructed pixels. In addition, the transform process may be applied to pixel blocks having the same square size, or may be applied to non-square variable-size blocks.

[0054] The quantization unit 233 quantizes the transform coefficients and transmits them to the entropy encoding unit 240, which may encode the quantized signal (information on the quantized transform coefficients) and output the quantized signal as a bitstream. The information on the quantized transform coefficients may be referred to as residual information. The quantization unit 233 may rearrange the quantized transform coefficients in a block form into a one-dimensional vector form based on a coefficient scan order, and may generate information on the quantized transform coefficients based on the quantized transform coefficients in the one-dimensional vector form. The entropy encoding unit 240 may perform various encoding methods, such as exponential Golomb, context-adaptive variable length coding (CAVLC), and context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC). The entropy encoding unit 240 may also encode information required for video / image restoration (e.g., values ​​of syntax elements, etc.) together with or separately from the quantized transform coefficients. The encoded information (e.g., encoded video / image information) may be transmitted or stored in the form of a bitstream in network abstraction layer (NAL) unit units. The video / image information may further include information on various parameter sets, such as an adaptation parameter set (APS), a picture parameter set (PPS), a sequence parameter set (SPS), or a video parameter set (VPS). The video / image information may further include general constraint information. Signaling / transmitted information and / or syntax elements described later in this document may be encoded through the above-mentioned encoding procedure and included in the bitstream.The bitstream may be transmitted via a network or may be stored in a digital storage medium, where the network may include a broadcasting network and / or a communication network, and the digital storage medium may include various storage media such as a USB, SD, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, HDD, SSD, etc. A transmitter (not shown) for transmitting the signal output from the entropy encoding unit 240 and / or a storage unit (not shown) for storing the signal may be configured as an internal / external element of the encoding apparatus 200, or the transmitter may be included in the entropy encoding unit 240.

[0055] The quantized transform coefficients output from the quantizer 233 may be used to generate a prediction signal. For example, a residual signal (residual block or residual sample) may be reconstructed by applying inverse quantization and inverse transform to the quantized transform coefficients via the inverse quantizer 234 and the inverse transformer 235. The adder 250 may generate a reconstructed signal (reconstructed picture, reconstructed block, reconstructed sample, or reconstructed sample array) by adding the reconstructed residual signal to the prediction signal output from the predictor 220. If there is no residual for the current block, such as when a skip mode is applied, the predicted block may be used as a reconstructed block. The generated reconstructed signal may be used for intra prediction of the next current block in the current picture, and may also be used for inter prediction of the next picture after filtering as described below.

[0056] Meanwhile, luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) may be applied during picture encoding and / or restoration.

[0057] The filtering unit 260 may apply filtering to the reconstructed signal to improve subjective / objective image quality. For example, the filtering unit 260 may apply various filtering methods to the reconstructed picture to generate a modified reconstructed picture, and may store the modified reconstructed picture in the memory 270, specifically, in the DPB of the memory 270. The various filtering methods may include, for example, deblocking filtering, sample adaptive offset (SAO), an adaptive loop filter, a bilateral filter, etc. The filtering unit 260 may generate various information related to filtering and transmit it to the entropy encoding unit 240, as will be described later in the description of each filtering method. The filtering information may be encoded by the entropy encoding unit 240 and output in the form of a bitstream.

[0058] The modified reconstructed picture transmitted to the memory 270 can be used as a reference picture in the inter predictor 221. When inter prediction is applied through this, the encoding apparatus can avoid prediction mismatch between the encoding apparatus 200 and the decoding apparatus, and can also improve encoding efficiency.

[0059] The DPB of the memory 270 may store the modified reconstructed picture to be used as a reference picture in the inter prediction unit 221. The memory 270 may store motion information of a block from which motion information in the current picture is derived (or encoded) and / or motion information of a block in an already reconstructed picture. The stored motion information may be transmitted to the inter prediction unit 221 to be used as motion information of a spatial neighboring block or motion information of a temporal neighboring block. The memory 270 may store reconstructed samples of reconstructed blocks in the current picture and transmit them to the intra prediction unit 222.

[0060] FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of a video / image decoding device to which this document can be applied.

[0061] Referring to FIG. 3, the decoding device 300 may include an entropy decoder 310, a residual processor 320, a predictor 330, an adder 340, a filter 350, and a memory 360. The predictor 330 may include an inter predictor 332 and an intra predictor 331. The residual processor 320 may include a dequantizer 321 and an inverse transformer 322. The entropy decoding unit 310, the residual processor 320, the predictor 330, the adder 340, and the filter 350 may be configured as one hardware component (e.g., a decoder chipset or processor) according to an embodiment. Also, the memory 360 may include a decoded picture buffer (DPB) and may be configured as a digital storage medium. The hardware components may further include a memory 360 as an internal / external component.

[0062] When a bitstream including video / image information is input, the decoding apparatus 300 can restore an image corresponding to a process in which the video / image information is processed by the encoding apparatus of FIG. 2. For example, the decoding apparatus 300 can derive a unit / block based on block division related information obtained from the bitstream. The decoding apparatus 300 can perform decoding using a processing unit applied in the encoding apparatus. Thus, the processing unit for decoding is, for example, a coding unit, and the coding unit can be divided from a coding tree unit or a maximal coding unit according to a quad tree structure, a binary tree structure, and / or a ternary tree structure. One or more transform units can be derived from the coding unit. And, the restored image signal decoded and output by the decoding apparatus 300 can be reproduced by a reproduction device.

[0063] The decoding apparatus 300 may receive a signal output from the encoding apparatus of FIG. 2 in the form of a bitstream, and the received signal may be decoded via the entropy decoding unit 310. For example, the entropy decoding unit 310 may derive information (e.g., video / image information) required for image restoration (or picture restoration) by parsing the bitstream. The video / image information may further include information on various parameter sets, such as an adaptation parameter set (APS), a picture parameter set (PPS), a sequence parameter set (SPS), or a video parameter set (VPS). In addition, the video / image information may further include general constraint information. The decoding apparatus may decode a picture further based on information on the parameter set and / or the general constraint information. Signaling / received information and / or syntax elements described later in this document may be obtained from the bitstream by being decoded via the decoding procedure. For example, the entropy decoding unit 310 may decode information in a bitstream based on a coding method such as exponential Golomb coding, CAVLC, or CABAC, and output values ​​of syntax elements required for image restoration and quantized values ​​of transform coefficients related to residuals. More specifically, the CABAC entropy decoding method may receive bins corresponding to each syntax element in a bitstream, determine a context model using information on a syntax element to be decoded and decoding information of adjacent and to-be-decoded blocks or information on symbols / bins decoded in a previous step, predict the occurrence probability of bins according to the determined context model, and perform arithmetic decoding of the bins to generate symbols corresponding to the values ​​of each syntax element.In this case, the CABAC entropy decoding method may update the context model using information of the decoded symbol / bin for the context model of the next symbol / bin after determining the context model. Prediction information from the information decoded by the entropy decoding unit 310 may be provided to the prediction unit 330, and information on the residual on which the entropy decoding is performed by the entropy decoding unit 310, i.e., quantized transform coefficients and related parameter information, may be input to the inverse quantization unit 321. In addition, filtering information from the information decoded by the entropy decoding unit 310 may be provided to the filtering unit 350. Meanwhile, a receiving unit (not shown) for receiving a signal output from the encoding device may be further configured as an internal / external element of the decoding device 300, or the receiving unit may be a component of the entropy decoding unit 310. Meanwhile, the decoding device according to the present document may be called a video / image / picture decoding device, and the decoding device may be divided into an information decoder (video / image / picture information decoder) and a sample decoder (video / image / picture sample decoder). The information decoder may include the entropy decoding unit 310, and the sample decoder may include at least one of the inverse quantization unit 321, the inverse transform unit 322, the prediction unit 330, the addition unit 340, the filtering unit 350, and the memory 360.

[0064] The inverse quantization unit 321 may inverse quantize the quantized transform coefficients to output transform coefficients. The inverse quantization unit 321 may rearrange the quantized transform coefficients in a two-dimensional block form. In this case, the rearrangement may be performed based on a coefficient scan order performed in the encoding apparatus. The inverse quantization unit 321 may perform inverse quantization on the quantized transform coefficients using a quantization parameter (e.g., quantization step size information) to obtain transform coefficients.

[0065] The inverse transform unit 322 inversely transforms the transform coefficients to obtain a residual signal (residual block, residual sample array).

[0066] The prediction unit may perform prediction on a current block and generate a predicted block including prediction samples for the current block. The prediction unit may determine whether intra prediction or inter prediction is applied to the current block based on information on the prediction output from the entropy decoding unit 310, and may determine a specific intra / inter prediction mode.

[0067] The predictor may generate a prediction signal based on various prediction methods described below. For example, the predictor may apply intra prediction or inter prediction for prediction of one block, and may simultaneously apply intra prediction and inter prediction. This may be called combined inter and intra prediction (CIIP). The predictor may also perform intra block copy (IBC) for prediction of a block. The intra block copy may be used for content image / moving image coding such as games, for example, as in screen content coding (SCC). IBC basically performs prediction within a current picture, but may be performed similarly to inter prediction in that a reference block is derived within the current picture. That is, IBC may use at least one of the inter prediction techniques described in this document.

[0068] The intra prediction unit 331 may predict a current block by referring to samples in a current picture. The referenced samples may be located in a neighbor of the current block or may be located far away depending on a prediction mode. In intra prediction, prediction modes may include a plurality of non-directional modes and a plurality of directional modes. The intra prediction unit 331 may also determine a prediction mode to be applied to the current block by using a prediction mode applied to a neighboring block.

[0069] The inter prediction unit 332 may derive a predicted block for the current block based on a reference block (reference sample array) identified by a motion vector on a reference picture. In this case, in order to reduce the amount of motion information transmitted in the inter prediction mode, the motion information may be predicted in units of blocks, sub-blocks, or samples based on correlation of motion information between neighboring blocks and the current block. The motion information may include a motion vector and a reference picture index. The motion information may further include inter prediction direction (L0 prediction, L1 prediction, Bi prediction, etc.) information. In the case of inter prediction, the neighboring blocks may include a spatial neighboring block present in the current picture and a temporal neighboring block present in the reference picture. For example, the inter prediction unit 332 may configure a motion information candidate list based on the neighboring blocks, and derive a motion vector and / or a reference picture index for the current block based on the received candidate selection information. Inter prediction may be performed based on various prediction modes, and the information regarding the prediction may include information indicating a mode of inter prediction for the current block.

[0070] The adder 340 may generate a reconstructed signal (reconstructed picture, reconstructed block, reconstructed sample array) by adding the acquired residual signal to the prediction signal (predicted block, predicted sample array) output from the prediction unit 330. When there is no residual for the current block, such as when the skip mode is applied, the predicted block may be used as the reconstructed block.

[0071] The adder 340 may be referred to as a reconstruction unit or a reconstruction block generator. The generated reconstruction signal may be used for intra prediction of a next block to be processed in a current picture, may be output after filtering as described below, or may be used for inter prediction of a next picture.

[0072] Meanwhile, luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) can be applied during the picture decoding process.

[0073] The filtering unit 350 may apply filtering to the reconstructed signal to improve subjective / objective image quality. For example, the filtering unit 350 may generate a modified reconstructed picture by applying various filtering methods to the reconstructed picture, and may transmit the modified reconstructed picture to the memory 360, specifically, to the DPB of the memory 360. The various filtering methods may include, for example, deblocking filtering, sample adaptive offset, an adaptive loop filter, a bilateral filter, etc.

[0074] The (modified) reconstructed picture stored in the DPB of the memory 360 may be used as a reference picture in the inter prediction unit 332. The memory 360 may store motion information of a block from which motion information in the current picture is derived (or decoded) and / or motion information of a block in an already reconstructed picture. The stored motion information may be transmitted to the inter prediction unit 332 to be used as motion information of a spatial neighboring block or motion information of a temporal neighboring block. The memory 360 may store reconstructed samples of reconstructed blocks in the current picture and transmit them to the intra prediction unit 331.

[0075] In this specification, the embodiments described for the prediction unit 330, inverse quantization unit 321, inverse transform unit 322, and filtering unit 350 of the decoding device 300 can be applied identically or correspondingly to the prediction unit 220, inverse quantization unit 234, inverse transform unit 235, and filtering unit 260 of the encoding device 200, respectively.

[0076] As described above, prediction is performed to improve compression efficiency when performing video coding. Through this, a predicted block including predicted samples for a current block, which is a block to be coded, can be generated. Here, the predicted block includes predicted samples in a spatial domain (or a pixel domain). The predicted block is derived in the same manner by an encoding device and a decoding device, and the encoding device can improve video coding efficiency by signaling information (residual information) on the residual between the original block and the predicted block, which is not an original sample value of the original block, to a decoding device. The decoding device can derive a residual block including residual samples based on the residual information, combine the residual block with the predicted block to generate a reconstructed block including reconstructed samples, and generate a reconstructed picture including the reconstructed block.

[0077] The residual information may be generated through a transform and quantization procedure. For example, the encoding apparatus may derive a residual block between the original block and the predicted block, perform a transform procedure on the residual samples (residual sample array) included in the residual block to derive transform coefficients, perform a quantization procedure on the transform coefficients to derive quantized transform coefficients, and signal the associated residual information (through a bitstream) to the decoding apparatus. Here, the residual information may include information such as value information, position information, transform technique, transform kernel, and quantization parameter of the quantized transform coefficients. The decoding apparatus may derive a residual sample (or a residual block) by performing an inverse quantization / inverse transform procedure based on the residual information. The decoding apparatus may generate a reconstructed picture based on the predicted block and the residual block. Also, the encoding apparatus may derive a residual block by inverse quantizing / inverse transforming the quantized transform coefficients for reference for inter-prediction of a future picture, and generate a reconstructed picture based on the residual block.

[0078] FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic of the multiple conversion technique according to this document.

[0079] Referring to FIG. 4, the conversion unit may correspond to the conversion unit in the encoding device of FIG. 2 described above, and the inverse conversion unit may correspond to the inverse conversion unit in the encoding device of FIG. 2 described above or the inverse conversion unit in the decoding device of FIG. 3.

[0080] The transform unit may perform a primary transform based on the residual samples (residual sample array) in the residual block to derive (primary) transform coefficients (S410). Such a primary transform may be called a core transform. Here, the primary transform may be based on Multiple Transform Selection (MTS), and when multiple transforms are applied as the primary transform, it may be called a multiple core transform.

[0081] The multi-kernel transform may refer to a method of transforming by additionally using a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) type 2 and a Discrete Sine Transform (DST) type 7, DCT type 8, and / or DST type 1. That is, the multi-kernel transform may refer to a transform method of transforming a residual signal (or a residual block) in a spatial domain into a transform coefficient (or a first transform coefficient) in a frequency domain based on a plurality of transform kernels selected from the DCT type 2, the DST type 7, the DCT type 8, and the DST type 1. Here, the first transform coefficient may be called a temporary transform coefficient from the perspective of a transform unit.

[0082] That is, when the existing transform method is applied, a transform coefficient can be generated by applying a spatial domain to frequency domain transform to the residual signal (or residual block) based on DCT type 2. In contrast, when the multi-kernel transform is applied, a transform coefficient (or primary transform coefficient) can be generated by applying a spatial domain to frequency domain transform to the residual signal (or residual block) based on DCT type 2, DST type 7, DCT type 8, and / or DST type 1, etc. Here, DCT type 2, DST type 7, DCT type 8, DST type 1, etc. can be called a transform type, a transform kernel, or a transform core. Such DCT / DST transform types can be defined based on basis functions.

[0083] When the multi-kernel transform is performed, a vertical transform kernel and a horizontal transform kernel for a current block may be selected from the transform kernels, and a vertical transform for the current block may be performed based on the vertical transform kernel, and a horizontal transform for the current block may be performed based on the horizontal transform kernel. Here, the horizontal transform may indicate a transform for a horizontal component of the current block, and the vertical transform may indicate a transform for a vertical component of the current block. The vertical transform kernel / horizontal transform kernel may be adaptively determined based on a prediction mode and / or a transform index of a current block (CU or sub-block) including a residual block.

[0084] In addition, according to one example, when a first-order transformation is performed by applying MTS, a specific basis function is set to a predetermined value, and when it is a vertical transformation or horizontal transformation, a mapping relationship for the transformation kernel can be set by combining what basis function is applied. For example, when a horizontal transformation kernel is represented by trTypeHor and a vertical transformation kernel is represented by trTypeVer, a trTypeHor or trTypeVer value of 0 can be set to DCT2, a trTypeHor or trTypeVer value of 1 can be set to DST7, and a trTypeHor or trTypeVer value of 2 can be set to DCT8.

[0085] In this case, MTS index information may be encoded and signaled to a decoding device to indicate one of a number of transformation kernel sets. For example, if the MTS index is 0, it may indicate that both the trTypeHor and trTypeVer values ​​are 0, if the MTS index is 1, it may indicate that both the trTypeHor and trTypeVer values ​​are 1, if the MTS index is 2, it may indicate that the trTypeHor value is 2 and the trTypeVer value is 1, if the MTS index is 3, it may indicate that the trTypeHor value is 1 and the trTypeVer value is 2, and if the MTS index is 4, it may indicate that both the trTypeHor and trTypeVer values ​​are 2.

[0086] As an example, a conversion kernel set according to MTS index information is shown in the table below.

[0087] [Table 1]

[0088] The transform unit may perform a secondary transform based on the (primary) transform coefficients to derive modified (secondary) transform coefficients (S420). The primary transform is a transform from a spatial domain to a frequency domain, and the secondary transform refers to a transform into a more compressed representation using a correlation existing between the (primary) transform coefficients. The secondary transform may include a non-separable transform. In this case, the secondary transform may be called a non-separable secondary transform (NSST) or a mode-dependent non-separable secondary transform (MDNSST). The non-separable secondary transform may refer to a transform in which the (primary) transform coefficients derived through the primary transform are secondary transformed based on a non-separable transform matrix to generate modified transform coefficients (or secondary transform coefficients) for a residual signal. Here, the non-separable transform matrix may be used to apply a transform to the (first-order) transform coefficients at once, without separating the vertical transform and the horizontal transform (or independently applying the horizontal-vertical transform). That is, the non-separable second-order transform may indicate a transform method in which, instead of applying the transform coefficients to the (first-order) transform coefficients in the vertical and horizontal directions separately, a two-dimensional signal (transform coefficient) is rearranged to a one-dimensional signal in a specific direction (e.g., row-first direction or column-first direction), and then a modified transform coefficient (or a second-order transform coefficient) is generated based on the non-separable transform matrix. For example, the row-major order is to arrange the first row, the second row, ..., the Nth row in a row for an M×N block, and the column-major order is to arrange the first column, the second column, ..., the Mth column in a row for an M×N block. The non-separable secondary transform may be applied to a top-left region of a block composed of (first-order) transform coefficients (hereinafter, may be referred to as a transform coefficient block).For example, if the width (W) and height (H) of the transform coefficient block are both 8 or more, an 8×8 non-separable secondary transform may be applied to the upper left 8×8 region of the transform coefficient block. Also, if the width (W) and height (H) of the transform coefficient block are both 4 or more, and the width (W) or height (H) of the transform coefficient block is less than 8, a 4×4 non-separable secondary transform may be applied to the upper left min(8,W)×min(8,H) region of the transform coefficient block. However, the embodiment is not limited thereto, and for example, even if only the condition that the width (W) or height (H) of the transform coefficient block is both 4 or more is satisfied, a 4×4 non-separable secondary transform may be applied to the upper left min(8,W)×min(8,H) region of the transform coefficient block.

[0089] Specifically, for example, if a 4×4 input block is used, the non-separable quadratic transform can be performed as follows:

[0090] The 4×4 input block X is denoted as follows:

[0091]

number

[0092] When the X is expressed in vector form, the vector JPEG2025020405000004.jpg84 is shown as follows.

[0093]

number

[0094] As shown in Equation 2, the vector JPEG2025020405000006.jpg84 rearranges the two-dimensional blocks of X in Equation 1 into one-dimensional vectors in row-first order.

[0095] In this case, the second-order non-separable transform can be computed as follows:

[0096]

number

[0097] Where: JPEG2025020405000008.jpg75 denotes the transform coefficient vector, and T denotes the 16×16 (non-separable) transform matrix.

[0098] The 16×1 transform coefficient vector JPEG2025020405000009.jpg75 can be derived, JPEG2025020405000010.jpg75 can be re-organized into 4x4 blocks via the scan order (horizontal, vertical, diagonal, etc.). However, the above calculations are merely examples, and in order to reduce the computational complexity of the non-separable quadratic transform, a Hypercube-Givens Transform (HyGT) or the like can be used to calculate the non-separable quadratic transform.

[0099] Meanwhile, the non-separable secondary transform may be a mode-dependent transform kernel (or transform core, transform type), where the mode may include an intra-prediction mode and / or an inter-prediction mode.

[0100] As described above, the non-separable secondary transform may be performed based on an 8×8 transform or a 4×4 transform determined based on the width (W) and height (H) of the transform coefficient block. The 8×8 transform refers to a transform that may be applied to an 8×8 region contained within the corresponding transform coefficient block when W and H are both greater than or equal to 8, and the corresponding 8×8 region is the upper left 8×8 region within the corresponding transform coefficient block. Similarly, the 4×4 transform refers to a transform that may be applied to a 4×4 region contained within the corresponding transform coefficient block when W and H are both greater than or equal to 4, and the corresponding 4×4 region is the upper left 4×4 region within the corresponding transform coefficient block. For example, the 8×8 transform kernel matrix may be a 64×64 / 16×64 matrix, and the 4×4 transform kernel matrix may be a 16×16 / 8×16 matrix.

[0101] At this time, for mode-based transform kernel selection, two non-separable quadratic transform kernels may be configured per transform set for non-separable quadratic transform for both 8×8 transform and 4×4 transform, and the number of transform sets is four. That is, four transform sets may be configured for 8×8 transform, and four transform sets may be configured for 4×4 transform. In this case, each of the four transform sets for 8×8 transform may include two 8×8 transform kernels, and each of the four transform sets for 4×4 transform may include two 4×4 transform kernels.

[0102] However, the size of the transform, i.e., the size of the region to which the transform is applied, is merely an example and sizes other than 8x8 or 4x4 can be used, the number of sets is n, and the number of transform kernels in each set is k.

[0103] The transform set may be referred to as an NSST set or an LFNST set. The selection of a particular set from the transform set may be performed based on, for example, an intra prediction mode of a current block (CU or sub-block). LFNST (Low-Frequency Non-Separable Transform) is an example of a reduced non-separable transform, which will be described later, and indicates a non-separable transform for low-frequency components.

[0104] For reference, for example, the intra prediction modes may include two non-directional (non-angular) intra prediction modes and 65 directional (angular) intra prediction modes. The non-directional intra prediction modes may include a planar intra prediction mode numbered 0 and a DC intra prediction mode numbered 1, and the directional intra prediction modes may include 65 intra prediction modes numbered 2 to 66. However, this is merely an example, and the present document may be applied to cases where the number of intra prediction modes is different. Meanwhile, in some cases, a 67th intra prediction mode may be further used, and the 67th intra prediction mode may indicate a linear model (LM) mode.

[0105] FIG. 5 exemplarily shows intra-directional modes of 65 prediction directions.

[0106] Referring to FIG. 5, intra prediction modes having horizontal directionality and intra prediction modes having vertical directionality may be distinguished with respect to the 34th intra prediction mode having a right-down diagonal prediction direction. H and V in FIG. 5 respectively mean horizontal directionality and vertical directionality, and the numbers from -32 to 32 indicate a displacement of 1 / 32 units on a sample grid position. This may indicate an offset for a mode index value. The 2nd to 33rd intra prediction modes have horizontal directionality, and the 34th to 66th intra prediction modes have vertical directionality. Meanwhile, the 34th intra prediction mode may be considered to be neither horizontal nor vertical in the strict sense, but may be classified as belonging to horizontal directionality in terms of determining a transform set for a secondary transform. This is because input data is transposed for vertical modes symmetrical with respect to the 34th intra prediction mode, and an input data alignment method for horizontal modes is used for the 34th intra prediction mode. Transposing the input data means that rows become columns and columns become rows for 2D block data M×N to form N×M data. The 18th intra prediction mode and the 50th intra prediction mode indicate a horizontal intra prediction mode and a vertical intra prediction mode, respectively, and the 2nd intra prediction mode can be called an upper right diagonal intra prediction mode because it predicts in an upper right direction using a left reference pixel. In the same vein, the 34th intra prediction mode can be called a lower right diagonal intra prediction mode, and the 66th intra prediction mode can be called a lower left diagonal intra prediction mode.

[0107] As an example, the mapping of four transform sets according to intra prediction modes is shown in the following table.

[0108] [Table 2]

[0109] As shown in Table 2, depending on the intra prediction mode, one of four transform sets, i.e., lfnstTrSetIdx can be mapped to one of 0 to 3, i.e., one of four.

[0110] Meanwhile, when it is determined that a specific set is used for non-separable transform, one of k transform kernels in the specific set may be selected through a non-separable secondary transform index. The encoding apparatus may derive a non-separable secondary transform index that indicates a specific transform kernel based on a rate-distortion (RD) check, and may signal the non-separable secondary transform index to a decoding apparatus. The decoding apparatus may select one of k transform kernels in the specific set based on the non-separable secondary transform index. For example, an lfnst index value 0 may indicate a first non-separable secondary transform kernel, an lfnst index value 1 may indicate a second non-separable secondary transform kernel, and an lfnst index value 2 may indicate a third non-separable secondary transform kernel. Alternatively, an lfnst index value 0 may indicate that a first non-separable secondary transform is not applied to a current block, and lfnst index values ​​1 to 3 may indicate the three transform kernels.

[0111] The transform unit may perform the non-separable quadratic transform based on a selected transform kernel to obtain modified (quadrature) transform coefficients. The modified transform coefficients may be derived as quantized transform coefficients through a quantizer as described above, and may be encoded and signaled to a decoding device and transmitted to an inverse quantization / inverse transform unit in the encoding device.

[0112] On the other hand, as described above, when the secondary transform is omitted, the (primary) transform coefficients, which are the output of the primary (separate) transform, can be derived as quantized transform coefficients through a quantization unit as described above, and can be encoded and signaled to a decoding device and transmitted to an inverse quantization / inverse transform unit within the encoding device.

[0113] The inverse transform unit may perform a series of steps in the reverse order of the steps performed by the transform unit described above. The inverse transform unit may receive (dequantized) transform coefficients, perform a secondary (inverse) transform to derive (primary) transform coefficients (S450), and perform a primary (inverse) transform on the (primary) transform coefficients to obtain residual blocks (residual samples) (S460). Here, the primary transform coefficients may be called modified transform coefficients from the inverse transform unit's perspective. As described above, the encoding device and the decoding device may generate a reconstructed block based on the residual block and a predicted block, and generate a reconstructed picture based on the reconstructed block.

[0114] Meanwhile, the decoding apparatus may further include a secondary inverse transform application determining unit (or an element for determining whether to apply the secondary inverse transform) and a secondary inverse transform determining unit (or an element for determining the secondary inverse transform). The secondary inverse transform application determining unit may determine whether to apply the secondary inverse transform. For example, the secondary inverse transform may be NSST, RST or LFNST, and the secondary inverse transform application determining unit may determine whether to apply the secondary inverse transform based on a secondary transform flag parsed from the bitstream. As another example, the secondary inverse transform application determining unit may determine whether to apply the secondary inverse transform based on a transform coefficient of a residual block.

[0115] The secondary inverse transform decision unit may determine a secondary inverse transform. At this time, the secondary inverse transform decision unit may determine a secondary inverse transform to be applied to a current block based on an LFNST (NSST or RST) transform set designated according to an intra prediction mode. In addition, as an embodiment, a secondary transform decision method may be determined depending on a primary transform decision method. Various combinations of a primary transform and a secondary transform may be determined according to an intra prediction mode. In addition, as an example, the secondary inverse transform decision unit may determine an area to which a secondary inverse transform is applied based on a size of a current block.

[0116] Meanwhile, as described above, when the second (inverse) transform is omitted, a residual block (residual sample) can be obtained by receiving (dequantized) transform coefficients and performing the first (separate) inverse transform. As described above, the encoding device and the decoding device can generate a reconstructed block based on the residual block and a predicted block, and generate a reconstructed picture based on the reconstructed block.

[0117] Meanwhile, in this paper, in order to reduce the computational complexity and memory requirements due to non-separable secondary transform, RST (reduced secondary transform) can be applied, in which the size of the transformation matrix (kernel) is reduced based on the concept of NSST.

[0118] Meanwhile, coefficients constituting the transformation kernel, transformation matrix, and transformation kernel matrix described in this document, i.e., kernel coefficients or matrix coefficients, can be expressed in 8 bits. This is one condition for implementation in a decoding device and an encoding device, and it is possible to reduce the memory requirement for storing the transformation kernel with a reasonably acceptable performance degradation compared to the existing 9 bits or 10 bits. In addition, by expressing the kernel matrix in 8 bits, a small multiplier can be used, and it is more compatible with SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instructions used for optimal software implementation.

[0119] In this specification, RST may refer to a transformation performed on residual samples for a target block based on a transform matrix whose size is reduced by a simplification factor. When performing a simplified transformation, the amount of calculations required during transformation can be reduced due to the reduction in the size of the transform matrix. That is, RST can be used to solve the problem of complexity that occurs during transformation of a large block or non-separable transformation.

[0120] The RST may be called by various terms such as a reduced transform, a reduced secondary transform, a reduction transform, a simplified transform, a simple transform, etc., and the name of the RST is not limited to the listed examples. Alternatively, the RST may be called a Low-Frequency Non-Separable Transform (LFNST) since it is mainly performed in a low-frequency domain including non-zero coefficients in a transform block. The transform index may be named an LFNST index.

[0121] Meanwhile, when the second inverse transform is performed based on the RST, the inverse transform unit 235 of the encoding apparatus 200 and the inverse transform unit 322 of the decoding apparatus 300 may include an inverse RST unit for deriving modified transform coefficients based on the inverse RST for the transform coefficients, and an inverse linear transform unit for deriving residual samples for the target block based on an inverse linear transform for the modified transform coefficients. The inverse linear transform refers to an inverse transform of a linear transform applied to the residual. In this document, deriving transform coefficients based on a transform may refer to deriving transform coefficients by applying the corresponding transform.

[0122] FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a RST according to an embodiment of this document.

[0123] In this specification, a "target block" may refer to a current block, a residual block, or a transformed block on which coding is performed.

[0124] In an RST according to an embodiment, an N-dimensional vector may be mapped to an R-dimensional vector located in a different space to determine a reduced transformation matrix, where R is smaller than N. N may represent the square of the length of one side of a block to which a transformation is applied or the total number of transformation coefficients corresponding to a block to which a transformation is applied, and the simplification factor may represent an R / N value. The simplification factor may be referred to by various terms such as a reduced factor, a reduction factor, a simplified factor, and a simple factor. Meanwhile, R may be referred to as a reduced coefficient, but in some cases, the simplification factor may represent R. In addition, in some cases, the simplification factor may represent an N / R value.

[0125] In one embodiment, the simplification factors or simplification coefficients may be signaled via a bitstream, but the embodiment is not limited thereto. For example, predefined values ​​for the simplification factors or simplification coefficients may be stored in each of the encoding apparatus 200 and the decoding apparatus 300, in which case the simplification factors or simplification coefficients are not separately signaled.

[0126] The size of the simplified transformation matrix according to an embodiment is R×N, which is smaller than the size N×N of the normal transformation matrix, and can be defined as Equation 4 below.

[0127]

number

[0128] The matrix T in the Reduced Transform block shown in FIG. 6(a) is the matrix T in Equation 4. R×N When residual samples for a current block are multiplied by a simplified transform matrix TR×N as shown in FIG. 6(a), transform coefficients for the current block can be derived.

[0129] In one embodiment, if the size of the block to which the transform is applied is 8×8 and R=16 (i.e., R / N=16 / 64=1 / 4), the RST according to FIG. 6(a) can be expressed by a matrix operation as shown in Equation 5. In this case, the memory and multiplication operations can be reduced to approximately 1 / 4 due to the simplification factor.

[0130] In this document, a matrix operation may be understood as an operation in which a matrix is ​​placed to the left of a column vector to multiply the matrix and the column vector to obtain the column vector.

[0131]

number

[0132] In Formula 5, r1 to r 64 may represent a residual sample for the target block, and more specifically, is a transform coefficient generated by applying a linear transform. As a result of the calculation of Equation 5, the transform coefficient c i can be derived, c i The derivation process is as shown in Equation 6.

[0133]

number

[0134] As a result of the calculation of Equation 6, the transform coefficients c1 to c2 for the target block are R That is, when R=16, the transform coefficients c1 to c 16 can be derived. If a regular transform, instead of the RST, is applied and a transform matrix of size 64×64 (N×N) is multiplied to residual samples of size 64×1 (N×1), 64 (N) transform coefficients for the current block are derived, but since the RST is applied, only 16 (R) transform coefficients for the current block are derived. Since the total number of transform coefficients for the current block is reduced from N to R, the amount of data transmitted from the encoding apparatus 200 to the decoding apparatus 300 is reduced, and therefore the transmission efficiency between the encoding apparatus 200 and the decoding apparatus 300 can be increased.

[0135] Considering the size of the transformation matrix, the size of the normal transformation matrix is ​​64x64 (NxN), while the size of the simplified transformation matrix is ​​reduced to 16x64 (RxN), so compared to performing normal transformation, memory usage can be reduced to the ratio R / N when performing RST. Also, compared to the number of multiplications NxN when using the normal transformation matrix, when using the simplified transformation matrix, the number of multiplications can be reduced to the ratio R / N (RxN).

[0136] In one embodiment, the transform unit 232 of the encoding apparatus 200 may derive transform coefficients for the current block by performing a primary transform and an RST-based secondary transform on the residual samples for the current block. Such transform coefficients may be transmitted to an inverse transform unit of the decoding apparatus 300, and the inverse transform unit 322 of the decoding apparatus 300 may derive modified transform coefficients based on an inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) for the transform coefficients, and derive residual samples for the current block based on an inverse primary transform for the modified transform coefficients.

[0137] Inverse RST matrix T according to one embodiment N×R The size of the simplified transformation matrix T R×N It is in a transpose relationship with

[0138] The matrix T in the Reduced Inv.Transform block shown in Figure 6(b) t is the inverse RST matrix T R×N T (The superscript T means transpose.) As shown in FIG. 6(b), the inverse RST matrix T R×N T When the inverse RST matrix T is multiplied, modified transform coefficients for the current block or residual samples for the current block can be derived. R×N T is (T R×N ) T N×R It can also be expressed as:

[0139] More specifically, when the inverse RST is applied as the secondary inverse transform, the inverse RST matrix T R×N TAlternatively, an inverse RST may be applied as an inverse linear transform, in which case the inverse RST matrix T R×N T Once multiplied by, the residual sample for the current block can be derived.

[0140] In one embodiment, when the size of the block to which the inverse transform is applied is 8×8 and R=16 (i.e., R / N=16 / 64=1 / 4), the RST according to (b) of FIG. 6 can be expressed by a matrix operation as shown in Equation 7 below.

[0141]

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[0142] In Formula 7, c1 to c 16 The result of the operation of Equation 7 is a modified transform coefficient for the target block or a residual sample for the target block, r i can be derived, and r i The derivation process is as shown in Equation 8.

[0143]

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[0144] As a result of the operation of Equation 8, r1 to r2, which indicate the modified transform coefficients for the target block or the residual samples for the target block, are Ncan be derived. Considering the size of the inverse transformation matrix, the size of the normal inverse transformation matrix is ​​64×64 (N×N), and the size of the simplified inverse transformation matrix is ​​reduced to 64×16 (N×R), so compared to performing normal inverse transformation, memory usage can be reduced to a ratio of R / N when performing inverse RST. Also, compared to the number of multiplication operations N×N when using the normal inverse transformation matrix, the number of multiplication operations can be reduced to a ratio of R / N when using the simplified inverse transformation matrix (N×R).

[0145] Meanwhile, the transform set configuration as shown in Table 2 may be applied to the 8×8 RST. That is, the corresponding 8×8 RST may be applied according to the transform set in Table 2. Since one transform set is composed of two or three transforms (kernels) according to the prediction mode in the screen, it may be configured to select one from up to four transforms including not applying the secondary transform. When the secondary transform is not applied, the transform may be considered to be applied with an identity matrix. When the four transforms are assigned indexes 0, 1, 2, and 3 (for example, the 0th index may be assigned as an identity matrix, i.e., when the secondary transform is not applied), the transform to be applied may be specified by signaling a syntax element called a transform index or an lfnst index for each transform coefficient block. That is, for an 8×8 upper left block, an 8×8 RST may be specified in the RST configuration through the transform index, or an 8×8 lfnst may be specified when LFNST is applied. The 8×8 lfnst and 8×8 RST refer to a transform that can be applied to an 8×8 region contained within a corresponding transform coefficient block when W and H of a target block to be transformed are both greater than or equal to 8, and the corresponding 8×8 region is the upper left 8×8 region within the corresponding transform coefficient block. Similarly, the 4×4 lfnst and 4×4 RST refer to a transform that can be applied to a 4×4 region contained within a corresponding transform coefficient block when W and H of a target block are both greater than or equal to 4, and the corresponding 4×4 region is the upper left 4×4 region within the corresponding transform coefficient block.

[0146] Meanwhile, according to an embodiment of the present document, in the conversion of the encoding process, a maximum 16×48 conversion kernel matrix can be applied by selecting only 48 data, not a 16×64 conversion kernel matrix, for 64 data constituting an 8×8 region. Here, "maximum" means that the maximum value of m is 16 for an m×48 conversion kernel matrix capable of generating m coefficients. That is, when RST is performed by applying an m×48 conversion kernel matrix (m≦16) to an 8×8 region, m coefficients can be generated by receiving 48 data. When m is 16, 16 coefficients are generated by receiving 48 data. That is, when 48 data constitute a 48×1 vector, a 16×1 vector can be generated by multiplying a 16×48 matrix and a 48×1 vector in sequence. In this case, a 48×1 vector can be configured by appropriately arranging 48 data constituting an 8×8 region. For example, a 48×1 vector can be configured based on 48 data constituting a region excluding the lower right 4×4 region of the 8×8 region. In this case, when a matrix operation is performed by applying a maximum 16x48 transformation kernel matrix, 16 modified transformation coefficients are generated, and the 16 modified transformation coefficients can be arranged in the upper left 4x4 area according to the scanning order, and the upper right 4x4 area and the lower left 4x4 area can be filled with 0s.

[0147] A transposed matrix of the above-described transformation kernel matrix can be used for the inverse transformation of the decoding process. That is, when the inverse RST or LFNST is performed as the inverse transformation process performed in the decoding device, the input coefficient data to which the inverse RST is applied is composed of one-dimensional vectors in a predetermined arrangement order, and the modified coefficient vectors obtained by multiplying the one-dimensional vectors by the corresponding inverse RST matrix on the left side can be arranged in two-dimensional blocks in a predetermined arrangement order.

[0148] In summary, when RST or LFNST is applied to an 8×8 region in the transformation process, a matrix operation is performed between 48 transform coefficients in the upper left, upper right, and lower left regions of the 8×8 region, excluding the lower right region, and a 16×48 transform kernel matrix. For the matrix operation, the 48 transform coefficients are input in a one-dimensional array. When such a matrix operation is performed, 16 modified transform coefficients are derived, and the modified transform coefficients may be arranged in the upper left region of the 8×8 region.

[0149] Conversely, when the inverse RST or LFNST is applied to an 8×8 region in the inverse transform process, 16 transform coefficients corresponding to the upper left corner of the 8×8 region among the transform coefficients of the 8×8 region are input in a one-dimensional array form according to the scanning order and may be subjected to a matrix operation with a 48×16 transform kernel matrix. That is, the matrix operation in this case may be expressed as (48×16 matrix)*(16×1 transform coefficient vector)=(48×1 modified transform coefficient vector). Here, an n×1 vector may be interpreted as an n×1 matrix, and therefore may be expressed as an n×1 column vector. Also, * means a matrix multiplication operation. When such a matrix operation is performed, 48 modified transform coefficients may be derived, and the 48 modified transform coefficients may be arranged in the upper left corner, upper right corner, and lower left corner regions excluding the lower right corner region of the 8×8 region.

[0150] Meanwhile, when the secondary inverse transform is performed based on the RST, the inverse transform unit 235 of the encoding apparatus 200 and the inverse transform unit 322 of the decoding apparatus 300 may include an inverse RST unit for deriving modified transform coefficients based on the inverse RST for the transform coefficients, and an inverse linear transform unit for deriving residual samples for the target block based on an inverse linear transform for the modified transform coefficients. The inverse linear transform refers to an inverse transform of a linear transform applied to the residual. In this document, deriving transform coefficients based on a transform may refer to deriving transform coefficients by applying the corresponding transform.

[0151] The detailed non-separable transform, LFNST, is described below in detail: LFNST may include a forward transform by an encoding device and an inverse transform by a decoding device.

[0152] The encoding device takes as input the result (or a part of the result) derived after applying a forward primary (core) transform, and applies a forward secondary transform.

[0153]

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[0154] In Equation 9, x and y are the input and output of the quadratic transformation, respectively, and G is a matrix indicating the quadratic transformation, and the transform basis vector is composed of column vectors. In the case of backward LFNST, when the dimension of the transform matrix G is expressed as [number of rows × number of columns], in the case of forward LFNST, the transposed matrix G is G. T It becomes dimensional.

[0155] For the reverse LFNST, the dimensions of the matrix G are [48×16], [48×8], [16×16], and [16×8], where the [48×8] and [16×8] matrices are submatrices obtained by sampling 8 transformation basis vectors from the left side of the [48×16] and [16×16] matrices, respectively.

[0156] On the other hand, in the case of forward LFNST, the matrix G T The dimensions of are [16×48], [8×48], [16×16], and [8×16], where the [8×48] and [8×16] matrices are submatrices obtained by sampling the upper eight transformation basis vectors of the [16×48] and [16×16] matrices, respectively.

[0157] Therefore, in the case of forward LFNST, the input x can be a [48×1] vector or a [16×1] vector, and the output y can be a [16×1] vector or a [8×1] vector. Since the output of the forward primary transform in video coding and decoding is two-dimensional (2D) data, in order to configure a [48×1] vector or a [16×1] vector as the input x, the 2D data output from the forward transform must be appropriately arranged to configure a one-dimensional vector.

[0158] Figure 7 is a diagram showing an example of a sequence for arranging output data of a forward linear transform into a one-dimensional vector. The left diagrams of Figures 7(a) and (b) show a sequence for creating a [48x1] vector, and the right diagrams of Figures 7(a) and (b) show a sequence for creating a [16x1] vector. In the case of LFNST, a one-dimensional vector x can be obtained by sequentially arranging 2D data in the sequence shown in Figures 7(a) and (b).

[0159] The arrangement direction of the output data of the forward primary transform may be determined according to the intra prediction mode of the current block. For example, if the intra prediction mode of the current block is horizontal with respect to the diagonal direction, the output data of the forward primary transform may be arranged in the order of (a) of FIG. 7, and if the intra prediction mode of the current block is vertical with respect to the diagonal direction, the output data of the forward primary transform may be arranged in the order of (b) of FIG.

[0160] As an example, an ordering different from that of (a) and (b) of Figure 7 can be applied, and if one wishes to derive the same result (y vector) as when the ordering of (a) and (b) of Figure 7 is applied, the column vectors of matrix G can be rearranged according to the corresponding ordering. That is, the column vectors of G can be rearranged so that each element constituting the x vector is always multiplied by the same transformation basis vector.

[0161] Since the output y derived through Equation 9 is a one-dimensional vector, if a configuration that processes the result of a forward quadratic transform as an input, for example a configuration that performs quantization or residual coding, requires two-dimensional data as input data, the output y vector of Equation 9 must again be appropriately arranged as 2D data.

[0162] FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a sequence in which output data of a forward quadratic transform is arranged in a two-dimensional block.

[0163] In the case of LFNST, the output values ​​can be arranged in a 2D block according to a predetermined scan order. FIG. 8(a) shows that when the output y is a [16×1] vector, the output values ​​are arranged in 16 positions of the 2D block according to a diagonal scan order. FIG. 8(b) shows that when the output y is an [8×1] vector, the output values ​​are arranged in 8 positions of the 2D block according to a diagonal scan order, and the remaining 8 positions are filled with 0. X in FIG. 8(b) indicates that it is filled with 0.

[0164] As another example, since the order in which the output vector y is processed in a configuration that performs quantization or residual coding may be performed in a preset order, the output vector y may not be arranged in a 2D block as shown in Fig. 8. However, in the case of residual coding, data coding may be performed in units of 2D blocks (e.g., 4x4) such as coefficient groups (CGs), in which case data may be arranged in a specific order such as the diagonal scan order of Fig. 8.

[0165] Meanwhile, the decoding device can arrange two-dimensional data outputted through an inverse quantization process for inverse transform according to a preset scanning order to form a one-dimensional input vector y. The input vector y can be outputted as an input vector x according to the following equation:

[0166]

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[0167] For reverse LFNST, the output vector x can be derived by multiplying the input vector y, which is a [16x1] or [8x1] vector, by the G matrix. For reverse LFNST, the output vector x is a [48x1] or [16x1] vector.

[0168] The output vector x is arranged in a two-dimensional block in the order shown in FIG. 7 and arranged as two-dimensional data, and such two-dimensional data becomes the input data (or a part of the input data) of the inverse linear transformation.

[0169] Therefore, the inverse secondary transform is generally the opposite of the forward secondary transform process, and in the case of the inverse transform, unlike the forward transform, the inverse secondary transform is applied first and then the inverse linear transform is applied.

[0170] In the inverse LFNST, one of eight [48x16] matrices or eight [16x16] matrices can be selected as the transformation matrix G. Which of the [48x16] and [16x16] matrices to apply depends on the size and pattern of the block.

[0171] Also, the eight matrices may be derived from four transform sets as shown in Table 2 above, and each transform set may be composed of two matrices. Which transform set of the four transform sets is used is determined according to an intra prediction mode, and more specifically, the transform set is determined based on an intra prediction mode value extended to a wide angle intra prediction mode (Wide Angle Intra Prediction, WAIP). Which matrix is ​​selected from the two matrices constituting the selected transform set is derived through index signaling. More specifically, the transmitted index value may be 0, 1, or 2, where 0 indicates that LFNST is not applied, and 1 and 2 may indicate one of the two transform matrices constituting the transform set selected based on the intra prediction mode value.

[0172] FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a wide-angle intra prediction mode according to one embodiment of the present document.

[0173] General intra prediction mode values ​​may have values ​​from 0 to 66 and from 81 to 83, and as shown in the figure, intra prediction mode values ​​extended by WAIP may have values ​​from -14 to 83. Values ​​from 81 to 83 indicate CCLM (Cross Composite Linear Model) modes, and values ​​from -14 to -1 and values ​​from 67 to 80 indicate intra prediction mode values ​​extended by applying WAIP.

[0174] When the width of a prediction current block is greater than its height, the upper reference pixel is generally closer to a position inside the block to be predicted. Therefore, predicting in the bottom-left direction is more accurate than predicting in the top-right direction. On the other hand, when the height of a block is greater than its width, the left reference pixel is generally closer to a position inside the block to be predicted. Therefore, predicting in the top-right direction is more accurate than predicting in the bottom-left direction. Therefore, it is advantageous to apply remapping, i.e., mode index conversion, to the index of the wide-angle intra prediction mode.

[0175] When wide-angle intra prediction is applied, information on existing intra prediction may be signaled, and after the information is parsed, the information may be remapped with the index of the wide-angle intra prediction mode. Thus, the total number of intra prediction modes for a particular block (e.g., a non-square block of a particular size) is not changed, i.e., the total number of intra prediction modes is 67, and the intra prediction mode coding for the particular block is not changed.

[0176] Table 3 below shows a process of deriving a modified intra mode by remapping an intra prediction mode to a wide-angle intra prediction mode.

[0177] [Table 3]

[0178] In Table 3, the extended intra prediction mode value is finally stored in the predModeIntra variable, ISP_NO_SPLIT indicates that the CU block is not divided into sub-partitions by the Intra Sub Partitions (ISP) technology currently adopted in the VVC standard, and the cIdx variable values ​​of 0, 1, and 2 indicate the luma, Cb, and Cr components, respectively. The Log2 function shown in Table 3 returns a log value with a base of 2, and the Abs function returns an absolute value.

[0179] A variable predModeIntra indicating an intra prediction mode, the height and width of a transform block, etc. are used as input values ​​of a wide angle intra prediction mode mapping process, and an output value is the modified intra prediction mode predModeIntra. The height and width of a transform block or a coding block may become the height and width of a current block for intra prediction mode remapping. In this case, a variable whRatio reflecting the ratio of width to height may be set to Abs(Log2(nW / nH)).

[0180] For non-square blocks, the intra prediction mode can be modified in two distinct cases.

[0181] First, if all of the following conditions are met: (1) the width of the current block is greater than the height, (2) the intra prediction mode before modification is greater than or equal to 2, and (3) the intra prediction mode is (8+2*whRatio) if the variable whRatio is greater than 1, or 8 if the variable whRatio is less than or equal to 1, and is less than the derived value [predModeIntra is less than (whRatio>1)? (8+2*whRatio):8], the intra prediction mode is set to a value 65 greater than the intra prediction mode [predModeIntra is set equal to (predModeIntra+65)].

[0182] If different from the above, (1) the height of the current block is greater than the width, (2) the intra prediction mode before modification is less than or equal to 66, and (3) the intra prediction mode is greater than the derived value [predModeIntra is greater than (whRatio>1)? (60-2*whRatio):60], then the intra prediction mode is set to a value 67 less than the intra prediction mode [predModeIntra is set equal to (predModeIntra-67)].

[0183] The above-mentioned Table 2 shows how a transform set is selected based on the intra prediction mode value extended by WAIP in LFNST. As shown in FIG. 9, modes 14 to 33 and modes 35 to 80 are symmetrical to each other in terms of prediction direction with mode 34 as the center. For example, mode 14 and mode 54 are symmetrical to each other with respect to the direction corresponding to mode 34 as the center. Therefore, the same transform set is applied to modes located in symmetrical directions, and such symmetry is reflected in Table 2.

[0184] However, it is assumed that the forward LFNST input data for mode 54 is symmetrical to the forward LFNST input data for mode 14. For example, for modes 14 and 54, two-dimensional data is rearranged into one-dimensional data in the arrangement orders shown in Figures 7(a) and 7(b), respectively, and it can be seen that the ordering patterns shown in Figures 7(a) and 7(b) are symmetrical about the direction indicated by mode 34 (diagonal direction).

[0185] On the other hand, as described above, which of the [48×16] and [16×16] transformation matrices to apply to LFNST is determined based on the size of the block to be transformed.

[0186] Fig. 10 shows block patterns to which LFNST is applied, where (a) shows a 4x4 block, (b) shows 4x8 and 8x4 blocks, (c) shows a 4xN or Nx4 block where N is 16 or more, (d) shows an 8x8 block, and (e) shows an MxN block where M≧8, N≧8, and N>8 or M>8.

[0187] In Figure 10, blocks with thick frames indicate areas to which LFNST is applied. For blocks (a) and (b) in Figure 10, LFNST is applied to the top-left 4x4 area, and for block (c) in Figure 10, LFNST is applied to each of the two adjacent top-left 4x4 areas. As LFNST is applied in 4x4 area units in (a), (b), and (c) in Figure 10, this type of LFNST is hereinafter referred to as "4x4 LFNST," and a [16x16] or [16x8] matrix can be applied to the corresponding transformation matrix based on the matrix dimension for G in Equation 9 and Equation 10.

[0188] More specifically, a [16×8] matrix is ​​applied to the 4×4 block (4×4TU or 4×4CU) in (a) of Fig. 10, and a [16×16] matrix is ​​applied to the blocks in (b) and (c) of Fig. 10. This is to match the worst case computational complexity with 8 multiplications per sample.

[0189] For (d) and (e) of Figure 10, LFNST is applied to the upper left 8x8 region, and such LFNST is hereinafter referred to as "8x8LFNST". A [48x16] or [48x8] matrix can be applied to the corresponding transformation matrix. In the case of forward LFNST, a [48x1] vector (x vector in Equation 9) is input as input data, so all sample values ​​in the upper left 8x8 region are not used as input values ​​for forward LFNST. That is, as can be seen in the left order of Figure 7(a) or the left order of Figure 7(b), the bottom-right 4x4 block is left as it is, and a [48x1] vector can be constructed based on samples belonging to the remaining three 4x4 blocks.

[0190] A [48×8] matrix can be applied to the 8×8 block (8×8TU or 8×8CU) in (d) of Figure 10, and a [48×16] matrix can be applied to the 8×8 block in (e) of Figure 10. This is also to match the worst case computational complexity to 8 multiplications per sample.

[0191] Depending on the block, when the corresponding forward LFNST (4 × 4 LFNST or 8 × 8 LFNST) is applied, 8 or 16 output data (the y vector in Equation 9, an [8 × 1] or [16 × 1] vector) are generated. Due to the properties of the matrix GT in forward LFNST, the number of output data may be the same or less than the number of input data.

[0192] FIG. 11 shows an example of the arrangement of output data from a forward LFNST, and illustrates blocks in which output data from a forward LFNST is arranged depending on the block.

[0193] The shaded area at the top left of the block shown in Figure 11 corresponds to the area where the output data of the forward LFNST is located, the positions marked with 0 indicate samples that are filled with a value of 0, and the remaining area indicates areas that are not changed by the forward LFNST. The output data of the forward linear transform remains unchanged in the areas that are not changed by LFNST.

[0194] As mentioned above, the number of output data varies depending on the block because the dimensions of the transformation matrix applied vary. As shown in FIG. 11, the output data of the forward LFNST may not fill the entire upper left 4×4 block. In the cases of (a) and (d) of FIG. 11, a [16×8] matrix and a [48×8] matrix are applied to the block or a part of the block indicated by the thick line, respectively, and an [8×1] vector is generated as the output of the forward LFNST. That is, according to the scan order shown in (b) of FIG. 8, only eight output data are filled as shown in (a) and (d) of FIG. 11, and the remaining eight positions are filled with 0. In the case of the block applied with LFNST in (d) of FIG. 10, the two 4×4 blocks at the upper right and lower left adjacent to the upper left 4×4 block are also filled with 0 values ​​as shown in (d) of FIG. 11.

[0195] As described above, the LFNST index is basically signaled to specify whether LFNST is applied and the transformation matrix to be applied. As shown in Figure 11, when LFNST is applied, the number of output data of the forward LFNST may be equal to or less than the number of input data, so areas filled with 0 values ​​occur as follows:

[0196] 1) As shown in FIG. 11(a), in the upper left 4×4 block, the 8th position in the scan order and after, that is, the 9th to 16th samples

[0197] 2) As shown in (d) and (e) of FIG. 11, a [16×48] matrix or an [8×48] matrix is ​​applied to two 4×4 blocks adjacent to the upper left 4×4 block or the second and third 4×4 blocks in the scan order.

[0198] Therefore, if non-zero data is found by checking areas 1) and 2), it is certain that LFNST is not applied, so signaling of the corresponding LFNST index can be omitted.

[0199] For example, in the case of LFNST adopted in the VVC standard, signaling of the LFNST index is performed after residual coding, so that the encoding device can know the presence or absence of non-zero data (significant coefficients) at all positions inside a TU or CU block through residual coding. Therefore, the encoding device can determine whether to perform signaling for the LFNST index based on the presence or absence of non-zero data, and the decoding device can determine whether to parse the LFNST index. If non-zero data does not exist in the areas specified in 1) and 2), signaling of the LFNST index is performed.

[0200] Since a truncated unary code is applied as a binarization method for an LFNST index, the LFNST index consists of a maximum of two bins, and the binary codes for possible LFNST index values ​​of 0, 1, and 2 are assigned as 0, 10, and 11, respectively. For example, context-based CABAC coding (regular coding) is applied to the first bin, and context-based CABAC coding can also be applied to the second bin. The coding of an LFNST index can be represented in the following table.

[0201] [Table 4]

[0202] As shown in Table 4, for the first bin (binIdx=0), context 0 can be applied in the case of a single tree, and context 1 can be applied in the case of a non-single tree. Also, as shown in Table 4, context 2 can be applied to the second bin (binIdx=1). That is, two contexts can be assigned to the first bin, and one context can be assigned to the second bin, and each context can be distinguished by the ctxInc value (0, 1, 2).

[0203] Here, single tree means that luma and chroma components are coded in the same coding structure. After a coding unit is divided in the same coding structure, if the size of the coding unit is below a certain threshold and the luma and chroma components are coded in separate tree structures, the coding unit can be regarded as a dual tree and the context of the first bin can be determined. That is, the first context can be assigned as shown in Table 4.

[0204] Alternatively, if the value of the variable treeType is assigned as SINGLE_TREE for the first bin, you can code it using context 0, otherwise use context 1.

[0205] Meanwhile, the following simplification methods can be applied to the adopted LFNST:

[0206] (i) As an example, the number of output data items for the forward LFNST can be limited to a maximum of 16.

[0207] In the case of (c) of Figure 10, 4x4 LFNST can be applied to each of the two 4x4 regions adjacent to the upper left corner, and in this case, up to 32 pieces of LFNST output data can be generated. If the number of output data for forward LFNST is limited to a maximum of 16, 4x4 LFNST is applied only to one 4x4 region located at the upper left corner of a 4xN / Nx4 (N≧16) block (TU or CU), and LFNST can be applied only once to all blocks in Figure 10. This simplifies the implementation of video coding.

[0208] Fig. 12 is a diagram showing an example in which the number of output data items for forward LFNST is limited to a maximum of 16. As shown in Fig. 12, when LFNST is applied to the upper left 4x4 region of a 4xN or Nx4 block where N is 16 or greater, the number of output data items from the forward LFNST is 16.

[0209] (ii) As an example, zero-out may be additionally applied to areas to which LFNST is not applied. In this document, zero-out may mean filling all position values ​​belonging to a specific area with 0 values. That is, zero-out may also be applied to areas that are not changed by LFNST and retain the result of the forward linear transform. As described above, LFNST is divided into 4x4 LFNST and 8x8 LFNST, and therefore zero-out may be divided into two types ((ii)-(A) and (ii)-(B)) as follows.

[0210] (ii)-(A) When 4×4 LFNST is applied, it is possible to zero out areas to which 4×4 LFNST is not applied. FIG 13 is a diagram illustrating zeroing out in a block to which 4×4 LFNST is applied, according to an example.

[0211] As shown in FIG. 13, for blocks to which 4×4 LFNST is applied, i.e., for blocks (a), (b), and (c) in FIG. 11, even areas to which LFNST is not applied can be filled with 0.

[0212] On the other hand, FIG. 13(d) shows that when the maximum number of output data pieces of the forward LFNST is limited to 16 as in FIG. 12, zero-out is performed on the remaining blocks to which the 4×4 LFNST is not applied.

[0213] (ii)-(B) When 8×8 LFNST is applied, it is possible to zero out areas to which 8×8 LFNST is not applied. FIG 14 is a diagram illustrating zeroing out in a block to which 8×8 LFNST is applied, according to an example.

[0214] As shown in FIG. 14, for blocks to which 8×8 LFNST is applied, that is, for blocks (d) and (e) in FIG. 11, even areas to which LFNST is not applied can be filled with 0.

[0215] (iii) When LFNST is applied due to the zero-out proposed in (ii) above, the area filled with zeros may change. Therefore, the zero-out proposed in (ii) above allows checking whether non-zero data exists in a wider area than in the case of LFNST in FIG. 11.

[0216] For example, when (ii)-(B) is applied, it is possible to check whether non-zero data exists in the areas filled with zero values ​​in (d) and (e) of FIG. 11 as well as in the areas additionally filled with zeros in FIG. 14, and to perform signaling for the LFNST index only if non-zero data does not exist.

[0217] Of course, even when the zero-out proposed in (ii) above is applied, it is possible to check whether non-zero data exists as with the existing LFNST index signaling. That is, LFNST index signaling can be applied by checking whether non-zero data exists for blocks filled with zeros in Figure 11. In this case, zero-out is performed only in the encoding device, and the decoding device can perform LFNST index parsing without assuming the corresponding zero-out, that is, by checking only whether non-zero data exists for only areas explicitly marked with zeros in Figure 11.

[0218] Various embodiments can be derived by applying combinations of the simplification methods ((i), (ii)-(A), (ii)-(B), and (iii)) to the LFNST. Of course, the combinations of the simplification methods are not limited to the following examples, and any combination can be applied to the LFNST.

[0219] Working Example

[0220] -Limit the number of output data for forward LFNST to a maximum of 16 → (i)

[0221] When -4×4LFNST is applied, all areas to which 4×4LFNST is not applied are zeroed out → (ii)-(A)

[0222] When -8×8LFNST is applied, all areas to which 8×8LFNST is not applied are zeroed out → (ii)-(B)

[0223] - For areas filled with existing 0 values ​​and areas filled with 0 by additional zero-out ((ii)-(A), (ii)-(B)), check whether non-zero data exists, and only if non-zero data exists, perform LFNST indexing signaling → (iii)

[0224] In the above embodiment, when LFNST is applied, the area where non-zero output data can exist is limited to the inside of the upper left 4x4 area. More specifically, in the cases of Figures 13(a) and 14(a), the 8th position in the scan order is the last position where non-zero data can exist, and in the cases of Figures 13(b) and 13(d) and Figure 14(b), the 16th position in the scan order (i.e., the bottom rightmost position of the upper left 4x4 block) is the last position where non-zero data can exist.

[0225] Therefore, when LFNST is applied, it is possible to determine whether or not to signal an LFNST index after checking whether non-zero data exists at a position where the residual coding process is not allowed (a position beyond the last position).

[0226] In the case of the zero-out method proposed in (ii), the amount of calculations required when performing the entire transformation process can be reduced because the amount of data that is ultimately generated when both the primary transformation and LFNST are applied is reduced. In other words, when LFNST is applied, zero-out is also applied to the forward primary transformation output data that exists in the area where LFNST is not applied, so there is no need to generate data for the area that will be zero-out when performing the forward primary transformation. Therefore, the amount of calculations required to generate the corresponding data can be reduced. Additional effects of the zero-out method proposed in (ii) can be summarized as follows.

[0227] First, as described above, the amount of computation required to perform the entire transformation process is reduced.

[0228] In particular, when (ii)-(B) is applied, the amount of calculations in the worst case is reduced, making the transform process lighter. To expand on the explanation, a large amount of calculations is generally required to execute a large-size primary transform, and when (ii)-(B) is applied, the number of data derived as the forward LFNST execution result can be reduced to 16 or less, and the effect of reducing the amount of transform calculations increases as the size of the entire block (TU or CU) increases.

[0229] Second, the amount of computation required for the entire conversion process is reduced, thereby reducing the power consumption required to perform the conversion.

[0230] Third, it reduces the latency associated with the conversion process.

[0231] Secondary transforms such as LFNST increase the overall latency associated with transform execution by adding computational complexity to the existing primary transform. In particular, in the case of intra prediction, reconstruction data of adjacent blocks is used in the prediction process, so the increase in latency due to secondary transform during encoding leads to an increase in latency until reconstruction, which can lead to an increase in the overall latency of intra prediction encoding.

[0232] However, by applying the zero-out technique proposed in (ii), the latency of the first conversion can be significantly reduced when LFNST is applied, so the latency of the entire conversion can be maintained or reduced, making it easier to implement the encoding device.

[0233] Meanwhile, in the conventional intra prediction, a block to be coded is regarded as one coding unit and coded without division. However, ISP (Intra Sub-Paritions) coding means dividing a block to be coded horizontally or vertically and coding the block as an intra prediction. At this time, coding / decoding is performed in divided block units to generate a restored block, and the restored block can be used as a reference block for the next divided block. As an example, in ISP coding, one coding block can be divided into two or four sub-blocks and coded, and in ISP, one sub-block performs intra prediction by referring to the restored pixel value of the sub-block located to the left or above the adjacent sub-block. Hereinafter, "coding" used can be used as a concept including both coding performed by an encoding device and decoding performed by a decoding device.

[0234] Meanwhile, the signaling of the LFNST index and the MTS index will be described below.

[0235] The coding unit syntax table, transform unit syntax table, and residual coding syntax table related to signaling of the LFNST index and the MTS index according to an example are shown in the following tables. According to Table 5, the MTS index is moved from the transform unit level to the coding unit level syntax and is signaled after the LFNST index signaling. In addition, the restriction condition that does not allow LFNST when ISP is applied to the coding unit is removed. When ISP is applied to the coding unit, the restriction condition that does not allow LFNST is removed, so that LFNST can be applied to all intra-predicted blocks. In addition, both the MTS index and the LFNST index are conditionally signaled at the end of the coding unit level.

[0236] [Table 5]

[0237] [Table 6]

[0238] [Table 7]

[0239] The main variables in the table have the following meanings:

[0240] 1. cbWidth, cbHeight: Width and height of the current coding block

[0241] 2. log2TbWidth, log2TbHeight: Base-2 log value for the width and height of the current transform block. Zero-out is reflected and it can be reduced to the upper left corner area where non-zero coefficients can exist.

[0242] 3. sps_lfnst_enabled_flag: A flag indicating whether LFNST is applicable (enabled). If the flag value is 0, it indicates that LFNST is not applicable, and if the flag value is 1, it indicates that LFNST is applicable. This is defined in the Sequence Parameter Set (SPS).

[0243] 4. CuPredMode[chType][x0][y0]: Prediction mode corresponding to the variable chType and the (x0, y0) position. chType can have values ​​of 0 and 1, where 0 indicates the luma component and 1 indicates the chroma component. The (x0, y0) position indicates a position on the picture, and the CuPredMode[chType][x0][y0] value can be MODE_INTRA (intra prediction) or MODE_INTER (inter prediction).

[0244] 5. IntraSubPartitionsSplit[x0][y0]: The content for the (x0, y0) position is the same as 4. It indicates what type of ISP split is applied at the (x0, y0) position, and ISP_NO_SPLIT indicates that the coding unit corresponding to the (x0, y0) position is not split into partition blocks.

[0245] 6. intra_mip_flag[x0][y0]: The contents for the (x0, y0) position are the same as in 4 above. intra_mip_flag is a flag indicating whether MIP (Matrix-based Intra Prediction) prediction mode is applied. If the flag value is 0, it indicates that MIP is not applicable, and if the flag value is 1, it indicates that MIP is applied.

[0246] 7. cIdx: A value of 0 indicates luma, and values ​​of 1 and 2 indicate the chroma components Cb and Cr, respectively.

[0247] 8. treeType: Refers to single-tree and dual-tree (SINGLE_TREE: single tree, DUAL_TREE_LUMA: dual tree for luma component, DUAL_TREE_CHROMA: dual tree for chroma component)

[0248] 9. lastSubBlock: Indicates the position in the scan order of the sub-block (Coefficient Group (CG)) in which the last non-zero coefficient is located. 0 indicates a sub-block containing DC components, and if it is greater than 0, it is not a sub-block containing DC components.

[0249] 10. lastScanPos: Indicates the position of the last significant coefficient in a subblock in the scan order. If a subblock consists of 16 positions, the possible values ​​are 0 to 15.

[0250] 11. lfnst_idx[x0][y0]: LFNST index syntax element to be parsed. If not parsed, it is inferred to have a value of 0. That is, the default value is set to 0, which indicates that LFNST is not applied.

[0251] 12. LastSignificantCoeffX, LastSignificantCoeffY: Indicates the x and y coordinates where the last significant coefficient is located in the transform block. The x coordinate starts from 0 and increases from left to right, and the y coordinate starts from 0 and increases from top to bottom. If the values ​​of the two variables are all 0, it means that the last significant coefficient is located at DC.

[0252] 13. cu_sbt_flag: A flag indicating whether the SubBlock Transform (SBT) currently included in the VVC standard is applicable. If the flag value is 0, it indicates that the SBT is not applicable, and if the flag value is 1, it indicates that the SBT is applied.

[0253] 14. sps_explicit_mts_inter_enabled_flag, sps_explicit_mts_intra_enabled_flag: Flags indicating whether explicit MTS is applied to inter CU and intra CU, respectively. If the corresponding flag value is 0, it indicates that MTS is not applicable to inter CU or intra CU, and if the value is 1, it indicates that MTS is applicable.

[0254] 15. tu_mts_idx[x0][y0]: MTS index syntax element to be parsed. If not parsed, it is inferred to have a value of 0. That is, the default value is set to 0, which indicates that DCT-2 is applied to both the horizontal and vertical directions.

[0255] As shown in Table 5, when coding mts_idx[x0][y0], various conditions are checked and tu_mts_idx[x0][y0] is signaled only if the lfnst_idx[x0][y0] value is 0.

[0256] Also, tu_cbf_luma[x0][y0] is a flag indicating whether or not a significant coefficient exists for the luma component.

[0257] According to Table 5, when the width and height of the coding unit for the luma component are both less than or equal to 32, mts_idx[x0][y0] is signaled (Max(cbWidth, cbHeight) <= 32), i.e., whether MTS can be applied is determined by the width and height of the coding unit for the luma component.

[0258] Also, according to Table 5, even in the case of ISP mode, (IntraSubPartitionsSplitType != ISP_NO_SPLIT) lfnst_idx[x0][y0] can be configured to be signaled, and the same LFNST index value can be applied to all ISP partition blocks.

[0259] On the other hand, mts_idx[x0][y0] can only be signaled in non-ISP mode (IntraSubPartitionsSplit[x0][y0]==ISP_NO_SPLIT).

[0260] In the process of determining log2ZoTbWidth and log2ZoTbHeight as shown in Table 7 (where log2ZoTbWidth and log2ZoTbHeight respectively indicate the base-2 logarithmic values ​​of the width and height for the upper left region remaining after zero-out is performed), the part checking the mts_idx[x0][y0] values ​​can be omitted.

[0261] Also, for example, when determining log2ZoTbWidth and log2ZoTbHeight in residual coding, a condition for checking sps_mts_enable_flag may be added.

[0262] The variable LfnstZeroOutSigCoeffFlag in Table 5 is 0 if there is a valid coefficient in a position that will be zeroed out when LFNST is applied, and is 1 if not. The variable LfnstZeroOutSigCoeffFlag can be set according to various conditions shown in Table 7.

[0263] As an example, the variable LfnstDcOnly in Table 5 is set to 1 if all the last significant coefficients for a transform block whose CBF (Coded Block Flag, 1 if there is at least one significant coefficient in the block, 0 otherwise) value is 1 are located at the DC position (top left position), and is set to 0 otherwise. More specifically, in the case of dual tree luma, the position of the last significant coefficient is checked for one luma transform block, and in the case of dual tree chroma, the position of the last significant coefficient is checked for both the transform block for Cb and the transform block for Cr. In the case of a single tree, the position of the last significant coefficient can be checked for the transform blocks for luma, Cb, and Cr.

[0264] In Table 5, MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag is initially set to 1, and this value can be changed by residual coding in Table 7. The variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag changes its value from 1 to 0 if there is a valid coefficient in the area that should be filled with 0 by zeroing out (LastSignificantCoeffX>15||LastSignificantCoeffY>15), in which case, as in Table 5, the MTS index is not signaled.

[0265] Meanwhile, as shown in Table 5, mts_idx[x0][y0] coding can be omitted when tu_cbf_luma[x0][y0] is 0. That is, when the CBF value of the luma component is 0, no transform is applied, so there is no need to signal the MTS index, and therefore MTS index coding can be omitted.

[0266] According to an example, the technical feature may be embodied in other conditional syntax. For example, after MTS is performed, a variable indicating whether a valid coefficient exists in a region excluding the DC region of the current block may be derived, and if the variable indicates that a valid coefficient exists in a region excluding the DC region, an MTS index may be signaled. That is, the presence of a valid coefficient in a region excluding the DC region of the current block indicates that the tu_cbf_luma[x0][y0] value is 1, and in this case, an MTS index may be signaled.

[0267] The variable may be represented as MtsDcOnly, which may be initially set to 1 at a coding unit level and then changed to 0 when a residual coding level indicates that a valid coefficient exists in an area excluding a DC area of ​​a current block. When the variable MtsDcOnly is 0, video information may be configured such that an MTS index is signaled.

[0268] If tu_cbf_luma[x0][y0] is 0, the residual coding syntax is not invoked at the transform unit level in Table 6, so the variable MtsDcOnly maintains its initial value of 1. In this case, the video information can be configured such that the MTS index is not signaled because the variable MtsDcOnly has not been changed to 0. That is, the MTS index is not parsed or signaled.

[0269] Meanwhile, the decoding apparatus may determine the color index (cIdx) of the transform coefficient to derive the variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag in Table 7. The color index (cIdx) being 0 indicates the luma component.

[0270] In one example, since MTS may be applied only to the luma component of the current block, the decoding device may determine whether a color index is luma when deriving the variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag, which determines whether or not to parse the MTS index.

[0271] The variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag indicates whether zero-out has been performed when MTS is applied, and indicates whether a transform coefficient exists in an area other than the top left corner area where the last valid coefficient can exist due to zero-out after MTS is performed, i.e., the top left 16x16 area. The variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag is initially set to 1 at the coding unit level as shown in Table 5 (MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag=1), and if a transform coefficient exists in an area other than the 16x16 area, its value can be changed from 1 to 0 at the residual coding level as shown in Table 7 (MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag=0). If the value of the variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag is 0, the MTS index is not signaled.

[0272] As shown in Table 7, at the residual coding level, a non-zero-out area in which non-zero transform coefficients can exist can be set depending on whether zero-out associated with MTS is performed. In this case, if the color index (cIdx) is 0, the non-zero-out area can be set to the upper left 16x16 area of ​​the current block.

[0273] In this way, when deriving a variable that determines whether or not an MTS index can be parsed, it is determined whether the color component is luma or chroma. However, since LFNST can be applied to both the luma component and chroma component of the current block, the color component is not determined when deriving a variable that determines whether or not an LFNST index can be parsed.

[0274] For example, Table 5 shows a variable LfnstZeroOutSigCoeffFlag that can indicate that zero-out has been performed when LFNST is applied. The variable LfnstZeroOutSigCoeffFlag indicates whether a valid coefficient exists in a second region excluding a first region at the upper left corner of the current block, and this value may be initially set to 1, and if a valid coefficient exists in the second region, the value may be changed to 0. The LFNST index can be parsed only when the initially set value of the variable LfnstZeroOutSigCoeffFlag is maintained at 1. When determining and deriving whether the variable LfnstZeroOutSigCoeffFlag value is 1, the color index of the current block is not determined because LFNST can be applied to both the luma component and the chroma component of the current block.

[0275] As shown in Table 5, an MTS index is signaled for each coding unit, and mts_idx (MTS index) is signaled only when MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag is 1.

[0276] Also, as shown in Table 7, the MtsZeroOutCoeffFlag value can be determined according to a specific condition (if ((LastSignificantCoeffX>15||LastSignificantCoeffY>15) && cIdx==0)) at the residual coding level.

[0277] The MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag value is set to 0 if the X coordinate value for the last non-zero coefficient (LastSignificantCoeffX) is greater than 15 or the Y coordinate value for the last non-zero coefficient (LastSignificantCoeffY) is greater than 15 (here, the X coordinate value increases from left to right within the corresponding transform block, and the Y coordinate value increases from top to bottom within the corresponding transform block. The top left corner position of the corresponding transform block is (0, 0).

[0278] Since MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag was initialized to 1 in Table 5, if the conditions presented in Table 7 are met and the MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag value is not set to 0, the value of 1 will remain.

[0279] If the primary transform applied in the horizontal direction is A and the primary transform applied in the vertical direction is B, the primary transform can be expressed as (A, B). Currently, in the VVC standard, in the case of (DST-7, DST-7), (DST-7, DCT-8), (DCT-8, DST-7), and (DCT-8, DCT-8), the transform coefficients are restricted to exist only in the upper left 16x16 region of the corresponding transform block. Therefore, the condition (LastSignificantCoeffX>15||LastSignificantCoeffY>15) in Table 7 indicates that the last non-zero coefficient is located outside the upper left 16x16 region. In Table 7, the variable cIdx indicates a color component, and a value of 0 for the variable cIdx means that it is a luma component.

[0280] Currently, in the VVC standard, the MTS index (mts_idx) is parsed after parsing for residual coding. More specifically, Table 5 is a coding unit, which is a syntax parsing function for a coding unit, and the MTS index is parsed after the transform tree function, and a function that performs residual coding parsing within the transform tree function is called. Therefore, the MTS index is parsed after parsing for the residual (the residual parsing function shown in Table 7 is responsible for parsing for the corresponding residual coding), and from the perspective of decoding while the residual coding is in progress, it is not possible to know what primary transformation is applied because it does not know the MTS index information. However, if MTS is applicable (enable) and SBT or ISP is applied or implicit MTS is applied, MTS is applied implicitly, so the corresponding primary transformation can be known before parsing for the residual coding.

[0281] The reason why the condition check as shown in Table 7 is necessary is because the current VVC standard restricts the output of only 16 transform coefficients when applying a forward transform in the case of a 32-length DST-7 or 32-length DCT-8. For example, if the MTS index value is greater than 0 and indicates that the applied primary transform is one of (DST-7, DST-7), (DST-7, DCT-8), (DCT-8, DST-7), or (DCT-8, DCT-8), non-zero transform coefficients can only exist in the upper left 16x16 region of the corresponding transform block.

[0282] Therefore, when the position of the last non-zero transform coefficient is outside the top left 16×16 region, it corresponds to the case where the MTS index value is 0, so that the signaling of the MTS index can be omitted as shown in Table 5. However, even if the position of the last non-zero transform coefficient is inside the top left 16×16 region, since a non-zero coefficient can exist outside the top left 16×16 region, in this case, even if the MTS index value is 0, a situation may occur where the MTS index is signaled as 0, and this case will be described as follows.

[0283] When the primary transform is (DCT-2, DCT-2), the position of the last non-zero coefficient exists in the upper left 16×16 region, and at the same time, a non-zero transform coefficient can also exist outside the upper left 16×16. This is because it is possible to scan outside the upper left 16×16 region in the scan order within the transform block, i.e., to scan a region other than the upper left 16×16 region and also scan the upper left 16×16 region, and conversely, it is possible to scan the upper left 16×16 region and also scan outside the upper left 16×16 region.

[0284] 15 is a diagram for explaining scanning of a 32×32 transform block according to an example of the present document, and more specifically, shows that the 32×32 transform block is divided into 4×4 coefficient groups (CGs) and scanned. In this document, when the CGs are divided into CGs and scanned, the corresponding CGs are also called "scan sub-blocks".

[0285] The numbers shown for each CG indicate the forward scan order, and in the decoding device, the CGs are scanned in the reverse scan order from the position where the last non-zero transform coefficient exists. In FIG 15, it can be assumed that the last non-zero transform coefficient exists in CG No. 25, which exists in the upper left 16x16 region.

[0286] As shown in FIG. 15, when the last non-zero transform coefficient exists in CG No. 25, the decoding apparatus scans from the CG where the last non-zero transform coefficient exists according to the reverse scan order, and scans the CGs in the order of 25, 24, 23, ..., 3, 2, 1 based on the numbers shown in FIG. 15. Since CGs No. 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 17, 16, 15, and 11 are located outside the upper left 16x16 region, it is not possible to know whether a non-zero coefficient exists only in the upper left 16x16 region by simply checking whether LastSignificantCoeffX and LastSignificantCoeffY correspond to the upper left 16x16 region as shown in Table 7.

[0287] Therefore, when performing parsing for residual coding, if a 4×4 coefficient group is checked to see if it belongs to the top left 16×16 region each time a non-zero transform coefficient is scanned, the MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag value can be set to 0 only if a non-zero coefficient exists outside the top left 16×16 region. The residual coding syntax reflecting this is shown in the table below.

[0288] [Table 8-1]

[0289] [Table 8-2]

[0290] [Table 8-3]

[0291] As shown in Table 8, whenever a non-zero transform coefficient is found, it is checked whether it is located in the upper left 16x16 region (if ((xC>15||yC>15)&&cIdx==0)) and the MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag value is set to 0. In this case, if the value of sig_coeff_flag[xC][yC], which is flag information indicating the presence or absence of a transform coefficient, is 1, the above condition is checked (if (sig_coeff_flag[xC][yC])), where xC and yC respectively indicate the sample unit X coordinate and Y coordinate within the current transform block. The upper left position of the corresponding transform block is (0,0).

[0292] Table 8 includes the condition check and MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag update part (if ((LastSignificantCoeffX>15||LastSignificantCoeffY>15)&&cIdx==0)MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag=0) presented in Table 7. If the sig_coeff_flag[xC][yC] value for the last non-zero transform coefficient is inferred to be 1, the corresponding condition check and MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag update part in Table 8 can be removed.

[0293] In summary, when the MTS index is signaled in Table 5 through the syntax configuration as shown in Table 8, the MTS index is signaled only if there is a non-zero transform coefficient in the upper left 16x16 region of the luma transform block, regardless of what primary transform is applied. If the MTS index is not signaled, the corresponding value is inferred to be 0, i.e., (DCT-2, DCT-2) is applied.

[0294] As mentioned above, there are three cases in which the primary transformation to be applied before the MTS index is signaled can be known:

[0295] 1) When Subblock Transform (SBT) is applied

[0296] 2) When Intra Sub-Partitions (ISP) are applied

[0297] 3) When implicit MTS applies

[0298] In the case of (1), since the MTS index is signaled only when the cu_sbt_flag value indicating whether the SBT is applied in Table 5 is 0, i.e., the MTS index is signaled only when the SBT is not applied, there is no relation to the modification of Table 7 when the SBT is applied.

[0299] In the case of (2), the MTS index is also signaled only when ISP is not applied in Table 4 (this corresponds to checking the IntraSubPartitionsSplit[x0][y0]==ISP_NO_SPLIT condition when signaling the MTS index in Table 5), so even when ISP is applied, it is not related to the modification of Table 8.

[0300] For the case (3), since the MTS index is signaled only when explicit MTS is applicable (enabled) in Table 5, the case where implicit MTS is applied is not related to the modification of Table 8. That is, in the case of MTS applied to a residual block generated by intra prediction (intra MTS), the MTS index is signaled only when the sps_explicit_mts_intra_enabled_flag value is 1, and in the case of MTS applied to a residual block generated by inter prediction (inter MTS), the sps_explicit_mts_inter_enabled_flag value is 1, so the modification of Table 8 does not affect the case where implicit MTS is applied.

[0301] Meanwhile, as another example, it is possible to check whether a non-zero coefficient exists outside the upper left corner 16×16 region in CG units as shown in the table below.

[0302]

Table 9-1

[0303]

Table 9-2

[0304]

Table 9-3

[0305] The xS and yS in Table 9 indicate the X coordinate position and Y coordinate position of each CG unit inside the current conversion block. To confirm whether the conversion coefficient is located outside the 16×16 area at the upper left corner, it is necessary to convert xS and yS into the coordinates of the sample unit. That is, xS and yS are converted into the sample unit coordinates like (xS<<log2SbW), (yS<<log2SbH). At this time, log2SbW and log2SbH are the base-2 logarithm values for the width and height of the corresponding CG respectively. The X coordinate increases from left to right, and the Y coordinate increases from top to bottom. The coordinates for the upper left corner position of the corresponding conversion block are (0, 0).

[0306] As shown in Table 9, when scanning in CG units, if there is a non-zero conversion coefficient inside the corresponding CG for each CG (when the coded_sub_block_flag[xS][yS] value is 1), and it is confirmed that the corresponding CG is located outside the 16×16 area at the upper left corner of the corresponding conversion block ((xS<<log2SbW)>15||(yS<<log2SbH)>15)), the MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag value is set to 0.

[0307] As shown in Table 5, the variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag value is initialized to 1, and therefore is maintained at 1 unless the MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag value is set to 0. If the coded_sub_block_flag[xS][yS] value of the CG to which the last non-zero transform coefficient belongs is inferred to be 1, the corresponding condition check part and MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag update part (if((LastSignificantCoeffX>15||LastSignificantCoeffY>15)&&cIdx==0) MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag=0) in Table 7 can also be removed from Table 9.

[0308] The following drawings are created to explain a specific example of the present specification. The names of specific devices and names of specific signals / messages / fields described in the drawings are presented for illustrative purposes only, and the technical features of the present specification are not limited to the specific names used in the following drawings.

[0309] FIG. 16 is a flow diagram illustrating the operation of a video decoding device according to one embodiment of this document.

[0310] Each step disclosed in Fig. 16 is based on a part of the contents detailed in Fig. 4 to Fig. 15. Therefore, the description of the specific contents overlapping with the contents detailed in Fig. 3 to Fig. 15 will be omitted or simplified.

[0311] A decoding apparatus 300 according to one embodiment can receive a bitstream including residual information and derive residual information, e.g., quantized transform coefficients, for a current block, i.e., a transform block to be transformed, from the bitstream (S1610).

[0312] More specifically, the decoding apparatus 300 may decode information on quantized transform coefficients for a current block from a bitstream, and may derive quantized transform coefficients for a target block based on the information on the quantized transform coefficients for the current block. The information on the quantized transform coefficients for the target block may be included in a sequence parameter set (SPS) or a slice header, and may include at least one of information on whether a simplified transform (RST) is applied, information on a simplification factor, information on a minimum transform size for applying the simplified transform, information on a maximum transform size for applying the simplified transform, a simplified inverse transform size, and information on a transform index indicating any one of transform kernel matrices included in a transform set.

[0313] The decoding apparatus 300 may derive the position of the last significant coefficient in the current block and the transform coefficients for the current block based on the residual information (S1620). The decoding apparatus 300 may derive the transform coefficients by performing inverse quantization on the quantized transform coefficients for the current block.

[0314] The derived transform coefficients may be two-dimensionally arranged in the current block, and the decoding apparatus may derive non-zero data, i.e., information on non-zero significant coefficients, in the current block through such residual coding. That is, the decoding apparatus may obtain information on the last position of non-zero significant coefficients in the current block.

[0315] The transform coefficients derived based on the residual information in S1620 may be dequantized transform coefficients as described above, or may be quantized transform coefficients, that is, the transform coefficients may be data that can be used to determine whether they are non-zero data in the current block and the positions of significant coefficients, regardless of whether they are quantized or not.

[0316] A decoding device may apply LFNST to the transform coefficients to derive modified transform coefficients, or may not perform LFNST.

[0317] The decoding device may derive residual samples by performing an inverse linear transform on the transform coefficients or the modified transform coefficients. The decoding device may use a conventional DCT-2 as a transform kernel for the inverse linear transform, or may apply the detailed MTS.

[0318] MTS may be performed either implicitly or based on explicit MTS index signaling.

[0319] The decoding apparatus may check a predetermined condition to parse the MTS index. For example, the decoding apparatus may parse the MTS index based on the absence of a valid coefficient in a second region excluding a first region at the upper left corner of the current block (S1630).

[0320] The MTS index can derive flag information indicating whether a significant coefficient exists in the second region, and in this case, the flag information can be derived by determining whether a significant coefficient exists in the second region in units of scan sub-blocks in which the significant coefficients are scanned.

[0321] The decoding apparatus may perform an inverse linear transform on transform coefficients in a first region at the top left corner of a current block to be transformed, that is, a second region excluding the first region at the top left corner of the current block is zeroed out and has no transform coefficients.

[0322] As an example, when MTS is applied, the first region is the top-left 16×16 region of the current block, in which case the second region can indicate a region other than the top-left 16×16.

[0323] The scan sub-block is a 4×4 block, and the scan sub-block may be scanned in an inverse diagonal scan direction from the position of the last significant coefficient in the current block, as shown in FIG.

[0324] After determining whether a significant coefficient exists in the zeroed-out region, in order to parse the MTS index, the decoding device can derive flag information indicating whether a significant coefficient exists in the second region, and parse the MTS index based on this.

[0325] This flag information is a variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag, and it can be determined whether a significant coefficient exists in the second region in units of scan sub-blocks in which significant coefficients are scanned.

[0326] The variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag is a flag (coded_sub_block_flag or sb_coded_flag) indicating whether a valid coefficient exists in the scan sub-block as shown in Table 9. If the value is 1 and the valid coefficient exists in the scan sub-block and is located in the second region (((xS<<log2SbW)> 15||(yS<<log2SbH)> 15)), it can be indicated that the effectiveness factor is present in a second region.

[0327] Alternatively, the variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag can be derived by checking whether the 4×4 scanned sub-block belongs to the first region each time the transform coefficients are scanned as shown in Table 8. That is, if the flag (sig_coeff_flag) indicating whether a valid coefficient exists in the scanned sub-block is 1 and the valid coefficient existing in the scanned sub-block is located in the second region (if((xC>15||yC>15)), the variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag can indicate that a valid coefficient exists in the second region.

[0328] Alternatively, the variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag may indicate that a valid coefficient is present in the second region if the flag value indicating whether a valid coefficient is present is 1 and the scan sub-block itself is located in the second region.

[0329] Such a variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag may be initially set to 1, maintained at 1 if a valid coefficient is not located in the second region, and changed to 0 if a valid coefficient is located in the second region.

[0330] To summarize, the decoding device can parse the MTS index based on the flag information indicating that there are no valid coefficients in the second region, and the MTS index can be parsed when the variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag, which was initially set to 1, maintains its value.

[0331] Thereafter, the decoding apparatus may derive a residual sample for the current block by applying the transform kernel derived based on the MTS index to the transform coefficients of the first region (S1640).

[0332] Next, the decoding apparatus 300 may generate a reconstructed sample based on the residual sample for the current block and the predicted sample for the current block.

[0333] The following drawings are created to explain a specific example of the present specification. The names of specific devices and names of specific signals / messages / fields described in the drawings are presented for illustrative purposes only, and the technical features of the present specification are not limited to the specific names used in the following drawings.

[0334] FIG. 17 is a flow diagram illustrating the operation of a video encoding device according to one embodiment of this document.

[0335] Each step disclosed in Fig. 17 is based on a part of the contents detailed in Fig. 4 to Fig. 15. Therefore, the description of the specific contents overlapping with the contents detailed in Fig. 2 and Fig. 4 to Fig. 15 will be omitted or simplified.

[0336] The encoding apparatus 200 according to an embodiment may derive a prediction sample based on an intra prediction mode applied to a current block (S1710).

[0337] The encoding apparatus 200 according to an embodiment may derive a residual sample for the current block based on the predicted sample (S1720).

[0338] The encoding apparatus 200 according to an embodiment may derive transform coefficients for the current block by applying MTS to the residual samples (S1730).

[0339] According to one example, the encoding device can apply the detailed MTS for the primary transform, or can use the conventional DCT-2 as the transform kernel.

[0340] MTS may be performed either implicitly or based on explicit MTS index signaling.

[0341] The encoding device can determine whether to perform MTS on the primary transform, and if it is determined to perform MTS, it can apply DCT-8 or DST-7 to the residual samples to derive transform coefficients.

[0342] According to an example, when MTS is applied as a primary transform, the encoding apparatus may zero out a second region excluding a first region at the upper left corner of the current block (S1740).

[0343] As an example, the first region may be the top left 16x16 region of the current block, in which case the second region may indicate a region other than the top left 16x16 region.

[0344] The zero-out reduces the amount of calculation required to perform the entire conversion process, and the power consumption required to perform the conversion can be reduced by reducing the amount of calculation required for the entire conversion process. Also, the latency involved in the conversion process can be reduced, thereby increasing the efficiency of video coding.

[0345] The encoding apparatus may further apply LFNST to the transform coefficients derived after the primary transform to derive modified transform coefficients.

[0346] The encoding apparatus may derive residual information based on the transform coefficients or modified transform coefficients for the current block (S1750).

[0347] That is, the encoding apparatus can generate residual information including information on quantized transform coefficients. The residual information can include the transform-related information / syntax elements described in detail. The encoding apparatus can encode image / video information including the residual information and output the encoded image / video information in the form of a bitstream.

[0348] More specifically, the encoding apparatus 200 may generate information about the quantized transform coefficients and encode the generated information about the quantized transform coefficients.

[0349] The encoding apparatus may also configure the image information such that an MTS index indicating a transform kernel of the MTS is parsed based on whether a significant coefficient exists in the second region (S1760).

[0350] In addition, the encoding apparatus may configure the image information such that flag information indicating whether a significant coefficient is present in the second region is derived in units of scan sub-blocks in which the significant coefficients are scanned.

[0351] That is, the encoding apparatus can configure the image information so that the image information shown in Table 8 or Table 9 can be parsed by the decoding apparatus.

[0352] As an example, the scan sub-block is a 4×4 block, and the scan sub-block may be scanned in a decoding apparatus in an inverse diagonal scan direction from the position of the last significant coefficient in the current block, as shown in FIG.

[0353] The flag information is a variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag, and it can be determined whether a significant coefficient exists in the second region in units of a scan sub-block in which the significant coefficient is scanned.

[0354] The variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag is a flag (coded_sub_block_flag) indicating whether a valid coefficient exists in the scan sub-block as shown in Table 9. If the value is 1 and the valid coefficient exists in the scan sub-block and is located in the second region (((xS<<log2SbW)> 15||(yS<<log2SbH)> 15)), it can be indicated that the effectiveness factor is present in a second region.

[0355] Alternatively, the variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag can be derived by checking whether the 4×4 scanned sub-block belongs to the first region each time the transform coefficients are scanned as shown in Table 8. That is, if the flag (sig_coeff_flag) indicating whether a valid coefficient exists in the scanned sub-block is 1 and the valid coefficient existing in the scanned sub-block is located in the second region (if((xC>15||yC>15)), the variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag can indicate that a valid coefficient exists in the second region.

[0356] Alternatively, the variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag may indicate that a valid coefficient is present in the second region if the flag value indicating whether a valid coefficient is present is 1 and the scan sub-block itself is located in the second region.

[0357] Such a variable MtsZeroOutSigCoeffFlag may be initially set to 1, maintained at 1 if a valid coefficient is not located in the second region, and changed to 0 if a valid coefficient is located in the second region.

[0358] The encoding apparatus may encode and then output the MTS index based on the residual information derived based on the transform coefficients and the flag information indicating that a significant coefficient is not present in the second region.

[0359] In this document, at least one of quantization / dequantization and / or transform / inverse transform may be omitted. If the quantization / dequantization is omitted, the quantized transform coefficients may be referred to as transform coefficients. If the transform / inverse transform is omitted, the transform coefficients may also be referred to as coefficients or residual coefficients, or may still be referred to as transform coefficients for uniformity of representation.

[0360] Also, in this document, the quantized transform coefficients and the transform coefficients may be referred to as transform coefficients and scaled transform coefficients, respectively. In this case, the residual information may include information on the transform coefficients, and the information on the transform coefficients may be signaled via a residual coding syntax. Transform coefficients may be derived based on the residual information (or the information on the transform coefficients), and scaled transform coefficients may be derived through an inverse transform (scaling) on ​​the transform coefficients. Residual samples may be derived based on an inverse transform (transform) on the scaled transform coefficients. This may be similarly applied / expressed in other parts of this document.

[0361] In the above embodiments, the method is described based on the flowchart as a series of steps or blocks, but this document is not limited to the order of steps, and some steps may occur in a different order or simultaneously with other steps than those described above. Also, those skilled in the art can understand that the steps shown in the flowchart are not exclusive, and other steps may be included, or one or more steps of the flowchart may be deleted without affecting the scope of this document.

[0362] The method according to the present document described above may be embodied in the form of software, and the encoding device and / or decoding device according to the present document may be included in an image processing device such as a TV, a computer, a smartphone, a set-top box, a display device, etc.

[0363] In this document, when the embodiments are implemented in software, the methods described above may be implemented with modules (processes, functions, etc.) performing the functions described above. The modules may be stored in a memory and executed by a processor. The memory may be internal or external to the processor and may be coupled to the processor in various well-known ways. The processor may include an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), other chipsets, logic circuits, and / or data processing devices. The memory may include read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), flash memory, memory cards, storage media, and / or other storage devices. That is, the embodiments described in this document may be implemented and executed on a processor, microprocessor, controller, or chip. For example, the functional units illustrated in each drawing may be implemented and executed on a computer, processor, microprocessor, controller, or chip.

[0364] In addition, the decoding device and encoding device to which this document is applied may be included in a multimedia broadcast transmitting / receiving device, a mobile communication terminal, a home cinema video device, a digital cinema video device, a surveillance camera, a video interactive device, a real-time communication device such as video communication, a mobile streaming device, a storage medium, a camcorder, a customized video (VoD) service providing device, an over-the-top video (OTT) device, an internet streaming service providing device, a three-dimensional (3D) video device, an image telephone video device, and a medical video device, and may be used to process a video signal or a data signal. For example, an over-the-top video (OTT) device may include a game console, a Blu-ray player, an internet access TV, a home theater system, a smartphone, a tablet PC, a digital video recorder (DVR), and the like.

[0365] In addition, the processing method to which this document is applied may be produced in the form of a program executed by a computer and may be stored in a computer-readable recording medium. Multimedia data having a data structure according to this document may also be stored in a computer-readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of storage devices and distributed storage devices in which computer-readable data is stored. The computer-readable recording medium may include, for example, a Blu-ray Disc (BD), a Universal Serial Bus (USB), a ROM, a PROM, an EPROM, an EEPROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, and an optical data storage device. In addition, the computer-readable recording medium may include a medium embodied in the form of a carrier wave (e.g., transmission via the Internet). In addition, a bit stream generated by the encoding method may be stored in a computer-readable recording medium or transmitted via a wired or wireless communication network. In addition, an embodiment of this document may be embodied in a computer program product by a program code, and the program code may be executed by a computer according to an embodiment of this document. The program code may be stored on a computer-readable carrier.

[0366] FIG. 18 exemplarily shows a structural diagram of a content streaming system to which this document applies.

[0367] Furthermore, the content streaming system to which this document applies may include to a large extent encoding servers, streaming servers, web servers, media stores, user devices, and multimedia input devices.

[0368] The encoding server compresses content input from a multimedia input device such as a smartphone, camera, camcorder, etc. into digital data to generate a bitstream and transmits the bitstream to the streaming server. As another example, if a multimedia input device such as a smartphone, camera, camcorder, etc. directly generates a bitstream, the encoding server may be omitted. The bitstream may be generated by an encoding method or a bitstream generation method to which this document is applied, and the streaming server may temporarily store the bitstream during the process of transmitting or receiving the bitstream.

[0369] The streaming server transmits multimedia data to a user device based on a user request via a web server, and the web server acts as a medium to inform the user of available services. When a user requests a desired service from the web server, the web server transmits the request to the streaming server, and the streaming server transmits multimedia data to the user. In this case, the content streaming system may include a separate control server, and in this case, the control server controls commands / responses between devices in the content streaming system.

[0370] The streaming server can receive content from a media repository and / or an encoding server. For example, when the content is received from the encoding server, the content can be received in real time. In this case, the streaming server can store the bitstream for a certain period of time to provide a smooth streaming service.

[0371] Examples of the user devices include mobile phones, smart phones, laptop computers, digital broadcasting terminals, personal digital assistants (PDAs), portable multimedia players (PMPs), navigation systems, slate PCs, tablet PCs, ultrabooks, wearable devices (e.g., smartwatches, smart glass, head mounted displays (HMDs), digital TVs, desktop computers, digital signage, etc. Each server in the content streaming system may be operated as a distributed server, and in this case, data received by each server may be processed in a distributed manner.

[0372] The claims described herein may be combined in various ways. For example, the technical features of the method claims herein may be combined and embodied in an apparatus, and the technical features of the apparatus claims herein may be combined and embodied in a method. Also, the technical features of the method claims herein and the technical features of the apparatus claims herein may be combined and embodied in an apparatus, and the technical features of the method claims herein and the technical features of the apparatus claims herein may be combined and embodied in a method.

Claims

1. 1. A video decoding method performed by a decoding device, comprising: obtaining residual information from the bitstream; deriving transform coefficients for a current block based on the residual information; and applying an inverse linear transform to the transform coefficients based on a multiple transform selection (MTS) index to derive residual samples for the current block. The step of deriving the transform coefficients comprises: determining whether a valid coefficient exists in a scan sub-block by scanning the scan sub-block in a previously set scan sub-block unit according to an inverse diagonal scan order; (i) whether the valid coefficient is present in the scan sub-block; (ii) whether the scan sub-block belongs to a second region other than the top-left corner 16×16 region of the current block; and (iii) whether the color index of the current block is 0; and deriving flag information indicating whether the valid coefficient is present in the second region based on the The MTS index is parsed based on the flag information indicating that the valid coefficient does not exist in the second region.

2. The video decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the MTS index is inferred to be 0 if the MTS index is not parsed.

3. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining whether the significant coefficient is present in the scan sub-block comprises the step of parsing a flag indicating whether the significant coefficient is present in the scan sub-block.

4. The flag information is initially set to 1, The video decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the flag information is changed to 0 if the significant coefficient is located in the second region.

5. the scan sub-block is a 4×4 block; 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the scan sub-blocks are scanned according to the reverse diagonal scan order starting from a last scan sub-block including a last significant coefficient in the current block.

6. A video encoding method performed by a video encoding apparatus, comprising: deriving a predicted sample for the current block; deriving a residual sample for the current block based on the predicted sample; applying a linear transform to the residual samples to derive transform coefficients for the current block; deriving residual information based on the transform coefficients of a 16×16 region at a top left corner of the current block; and configuring the image information to parse a Multiple Transform Selection (MTS) index indicating a primary transform kernel based on the existence of significant coefficients in a second region other than the upper left 16×16 region; The step of configuring the video information includes: encoding a flag indicating whether the significant coefficient is present in the scan sub-block by scanning the scan sub-block in a previously set scan sub-block unit according to an inverse diagonal scan order; (i) whether the valid coefficient is present in the scan sub-block; (ii) whether the scan sub-block belongs to a second region other than the top-left corner 16×16 region of the current block; and (iii) whether the color index of the current block is 0; deriving flag information indicating whether the valid coefficient is present in the second region based on the encoding the MTS index based on the flag information indicating that the valid coefficient does not exist in the second region; A video encoding method comprising:

7. The video encoding method of claim 6 , wherein the MTS index is inferred to be 0 if the MTS index is not encoded.

8. The flag information is initially set to 1, The video encoding method of claim 6 , wherein the flag information is changed to 0 if the significant coefficient is located in the second region.

9. the scan sub-block is a 4×4 block; The method of claim 7 , wherein the scan sub-blocks are scanned according to the reverse diagonal scan order starting from a last scan sub-block including a last significant coefficient in the current block.

10. 1. A method for transmitting data for video information, comprising: generating a bitstream for a video, the bitstream comprising: deriving a predicted sample for the current block; deriving a residual sample for the current block based on the predicted sample; applying a linear transform to the residual samples to derive transform coefficients for the current block; deriving residual information based on the transform coefficients of a 16×16 region at a top left corner of the current block; configuring image information to parse a multiple transform selection (MTS) index indicating a primary transform kernel based on the existence of significant coefficients in a second region other than the upper left 16×16 region; and transmitting the data including the bitstream; The step of configuring the video information includes: encoding a flag indicating whether the significant coefficient is present in the scan sub-block by scanning the scan sub-block in a previously set scan sub-block unit according to an inverse diagonal scan order; (i) whether the valid coefficient is present in the scan sub-block; (ii) whether the scan sub-block belongs to a second region other than the top-left corner 16×16 region of the current block; and (iii) whether the color index of the current block is 0; deriving flag information indicating whether the valid coefficient is present in the second region based on the encoding the MTS index based on the flag information indicating that the valid coefficient does not exist in the second region; A method comprising:

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